Anselm of Canterbury

Proslogion — the ontological argument

The father of Scholasticism. The ontological argument — God is 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' — has fascinated philosophers from Aquinas to Kant to Plantinga.

Key works

• Proslogion1078— The ontological argument
• Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man)1098— The satisfaction theory of atonement

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