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St Anselm's surprising number of letters to women included all estates from young girls to mothers and mature wives or widows, retired women, nuns, abbesses, nobles, countesses and queens. To understand his views of, beliefs about and relationships with women, and whether he collected and edited his own correspondence is to be determined. This study argues that he did - that he both addressed real women and situations, and also represented ideals of particular types of women, of marriage, relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, and students and teachers. In one sense the correspondence is an artful construct, and indeed a kind of autobiography, teaching by word and deed, by his own example, those who would come after him. It thus serves as a lens through which to discern his views of the ideal society and the roles of men and women within it. Anselm accords to womena surprising role of equality and power. His main politicalallies were women, and he granted the queen equality with king and archbishop. In the context of the budding twelfth-century Renaissance, Anselm sought to restore ideal models of the past, primarily St Gregory. In the process, Anselm took a major leap towards the twelfth-century attitudes of introspection, self-analysis, the discovery and valuing of the individual, and the use of logic and reason in these areas as well as in politics, law and theology. In Anselm's schema, the mother and the teacher emerge as the ultimate Handmaidens of God. ... Read more

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Cur deus homo ("Warum Gott Mensch ist") ist ein theologisches Werk des Benediktinermönches Anselm von Canterbury, das vermutlich zwischen 1094 bis 1098 entstanden ist.

In diesem Werk legt Anselm die ausführlichste und in der späteren Theologiegeschichte wirkungsmächtigste Darstellung der Satisfaktionstheorie vor: Es soll mit zwingenden Vernunftgründen bewiesen werden, dass Gott notwendig Mensch werden musste, um die durch die Erbsünde gefallene Menschheit mit Gott wieder zu versöhnen. Die Beweisführung erfolgt in dem zweibändigen Werk in der Form eines Dialoges, den der Autor Anselm mit dem möglicherweise fiktionalen Mönch Boso führt.

Während des Dialoges einigt man sich, dass der Mensch Gott gegenüber Genugtuung (Satisfaktion) zu leisten habe, die die begangene Sünde angemessen ausgleicht. Anderenfalls wäre nämlich Gott ungerecht, weil er die Sünde ungestraft ließe. Da der Mensch auf Grund seines gefallenen Status unmöglich diese Genugtuung erbringen kann, müsste Gott die gesamte Menschheit verwerfen, was aber seiner Barmherzigkeit widerspricht. Der Gott-Mensch Jesus hingegen kann die Menschheit mit Gott durch seinen Kreuzestod versöhnen, da er als sündloser Mensch durch seinen Tod eine Genugtuung erbringen kann, die die Erbsünde angemessen ausgleicht. (aus wikipedia.de) ... Read more

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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is a God? Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there be any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human beings must have the option to choose between good and evil in order to be morally responsible, must God be able to choose evil? Anselm answers these questions with a sophisticated theory of free will which defends both human freedom and the sovereignty and goodness of God. ... Read more

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This volume contains the proceedings of the conference organized by the Anselm-Society and the Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic held in Prague, April 27-30, 1992. ... Read more