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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794134603321

Autore

Holopainen Toivo J.

Titolo

A historical study of Anselm's Proslogion : argument, devotion and rhetoric / / by Toivo J. Holopainen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

90-04-42666-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Anselm Studies and Texts ; ; 02

Disciplina

212.1

Soggetti

God - Proof, Ontological

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.