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Saint Anselm
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Noun1.Saint Anselm - an Italian who was a Benedictine monkSaint Anselm - an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God


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The topics include Duns Scotus and the univocity of the concept of being, Anselm of Canterbury on pure perfection, and Suarez and Heidegger on the transcendental moment in the cognito transcendentalis.
He expanded on the environmental theme by mentioning an 11th century theologian, Anselm of Canterbury, who the pope says spoke "in an almost prophetic way of what we witness today as a polluted world whose future is at risk.
With due respect, I believe that he was overly dismissive of the "objective" model of Anselm of Canterbury, which stresses Christ's sacrifice as payment for sin, particularly in view of the theology of the Passion history in Matthew's Gospel.
 
 
 
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