The Art of Equanimity: A Study on the Theological Hermeneutics of Saint Anselm of CanterburyAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 18 July 2002
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It is not a question of using either the palpable world or the intellect when trying to prove Gods existence. Anselm apprehends beings very intelligibility as making it amenable to divine traces - that turn out to be Gods «muted» communication. Anselm practices in this sense «a blending of horizons» - i.e. tradition (Plotinus, Augustine, Benedict). We human beings owe our own rationality to the same God who created the universe, us and our minds. The appreciation of a thus constituted reality unleashes a remarkable and refreshing fecundity (Möhler, Guardini, Barth, von Balthasar). Anselm seems to state: «Thinking - insofar as it is intelligible - is being.» This makes Anselms approach topical for our days. Increasingly the world consists of information and news. Truth claims are filtered from what is thought. Perhaps it is this Anselmic `reduction of reality to thought which opens a perspective for genuine emancipation and authentic humanization. The monastery afforded the proper ambience to live and apprehend this `reduction.
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