The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

Anselm is today best remembered for developing the “ontological argument” for the existence of God. He was both a major figure in the political history of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries and also an important and wide‐ranging religious thinker, a philosopher and a theologian at a time when the two disciplines are largely indistinguishable. Yet his thought is not easily accessible and his works are not easy to come by. This Companion sets out to provide a clear introduction to his thought through a collection of essays exploring different aspects of it. The contributors are academic philosophers from...