Anselm

by Thomas Williams and Sandra Visser

Book Overview

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of Saint Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury for the last sixteen years of his life, is one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages. His keen and rigorous thinking earned him the title "The Father of Scholasticism," and his influence is discernible in figures as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, the voluntarists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195309383
• ISBN13: 9780195309386
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"