Cur Deus Homo (Classic Reprint) Book

LIFE OF ST ANSELM. A NSELM, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to "^ 1109, while William Rufus and Henry the First ruled England, was neither Norman nor Saxon, but Italian, born in 1033 at or near Aosta, the chief place in a mountain valley near the St Bernard Passes. His father, Gundulph, a Lombard settler in those parts, whose wife, Ermenburga, was related to the lords of part of the valley, bore a name well-known there. Anselm was thus of noble birth: he had one sister: also some uncles : of other kindred we know nothing. His mother was good and kind, and seems to have done her own work in awakening her child's religious aspirations: his father a rough man, harsh to his son. Before Anselm was fifteen he wished to be a monk: this his father would not allow, and even a dangerous sickness (for which Anselm had prayed) did not gain the desired end. After some time he appears to have been driven away by his father's unkindness, and with one companion, a clerk, he crossed the Alps Table of Contents CONTENTS; PAGE; Life of Anselm xi; CUR DEUS HOMO? Saint Anselm's Preface xxvii; JBOOfe J; CHAP; I The question on which the whole work depends I; II How those things which are about to be asserted, are to; be received 2; III Objections of unbelievers and answers of the faithful 5; IV That these answers appear superfluous to unbelievers,; and like representations of the truth, not the truth; itself 6; V That the redemption of man could not have been effected; by any save by God Himself 7; VI How unbelievers object to our assertion that God redeemed us by His death and so showed forth His love towards us as for us to have come to conquer the devil 8; VII That the devil had no just right against man; and why it seems as though he had : and wherefore God should have delivered man in this way 9; VIII How, although the humiliations we assert Christ underwent, belong not to His divinity, they yet appear to unbelievers to beRead More