Anselm Of Canterbury
Saint Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033 – 21 April 1109), also called of Aosta for his birthplace, and of Bec for his home monastery, was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the Church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of scholasticism, he has been a major influence in Western theology and is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God and the satisfaction theory of atonement.
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“Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.”
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“Faith seeking reason.
[Fides quaerens intellectum.]”
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“Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.”
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