Archive for February, 2007
I thought that I would continue Xavier’s examination of Anselm by looking at his view of the Atonement. I find Anselm very interesting because it seems to me his theology reveals a lot about how people in the medieval world thought. He was a man of the times so to speak.
This comes out in his [...]
I want to suggest here what I think are two of Anselms motivations for his insistence that God is metaphysically simple and see what everyone thinks of them.
It would seem, then, that the supremely good substance is called ‘just’ by its participating in a quality (in this case, justice), rather than through itself.
But this is [...]
