TY - BOOK ID - 65301587 TI - A historical study of Anselm's Proslogion PY - 2020 VL - 2 SN - 24684333 SN - 9789004423206 9004423206 9789004426665 9004426663 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Anselm, KW - Devotion KW - 2 ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS KW - 2 ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS Godsdienst. Theologie--ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS KW - Godsdienst. Theologie--ANSELMUS CANTUARIENSIS KW - Anselm, - Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, - 1033-1109 - Proslogion KW - God KW - Ontological argument KW - Ontology KW - Proof, Ontological. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65301587 AB - In A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion , Toivo J. Holopainen offers a new overall interpretation of Anselm’s Proslogion by providing an 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. ER -