A historical study of Anselm's Proslogion : argument, devotion and rhetoric /

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Author / Creator:Holopainen, Toivo J., author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Description:1 online resource (viii, 238 pages)
Language:English
Series:Anselm studies and texts, 2468-4333 ; volume 2
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542371
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ISBN:9789004426665
9004426663
9789004423206
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"In A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion, Toivo J. Holopainen offers a new overall interpretation of Anselm's Proslogion by providing a historical explanation for the distinctive combination of argument and devotion that this treatise exhibits. Part 1 clarifies Anselm's outlook on the central arguments in the treatise by offering a careful analysis of the 'single argument', the discovery of which Anselm announces in the preface. Part 2 reassesses the conflicting views about faith and reason in the immediate background of the Proslogion (the Eucharistic controversy, the publication of the Monologion). Part 3 examines the Proslogion from a rhetorical perspective and argues that applying the 'single argument' in a devotional setting constitutes a subtle attempt to affect the audience's ideas about method in theology"--
Other form:Print version: Holopainen, Toivo J.. A historical study of Anselm's Proslogion Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004423206