Reading Anselm's Proslogion (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies)

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ASHGATE NEW CRITICAL THINKING IN RELIGION, THEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL STUDIES

TheAshgate NI?W Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies series brings high quality research monograph publishing back into focus for authors, intemationallibraries, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars spanning the breadth of religious studies, theology and biblical studies, this open-ended monograph series presents cutting-edge research from both established and new authors in the field. With specialist focus yet clear contextual presentation of contemporary research, books in the series take research into important new directions and open the field to new critical debate within the discipline, in areas of related study, and in key areas for contemporary society.

Reading,Anselm's Pros!ogion, /. The HIstOry of Anselm's Argument arid its Significance Today

Series Editorial Board: David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK James Beckford, University of Warwick, UK Raymond Williams, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, USA Geoffrey Samuel, University of Newcastle, Australia Richard Hutch, University of Queensland, Australia Paul Fiddes, Regent's Park CoJlege, University of Oxford, UK Anthony Thiselton, University of Nottingham, UK Tim Gorringe, University of Exeter, UK Adrian Thatcher, College of St Mark and St John, UK Alan Torrance, University ofStAndrews, UK Judith Lieu, Terrance Tilley, University of Dayton, USA Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School, USA Stanley Grenz, Baylor University and Truett Seminary, USA Vincent Brummer, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Gerhard Sauter, University of Bonn, Gennany

IAN LOGAN Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, UK

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Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context The Anglican Epiclesis David J. Kennedy

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Logan, Ian Reading Anselm's Proslogion : the history of Anselm's argument and its significance

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Logan, Ian. ReadingAnselm's Proslogion : the history ofAnselm's argument and its significance today / Ian Logan. p. em. - (Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studies) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-7546-6123-8 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Anselm, Saint, Archbishop o[Canterbury, 1033-1109. Proslogion. 2. God-Proof, Ontological. I. Anselm, Saint, Archbishop ofCanterbury, 1033-1109. Proslogion. English & Latin. II. TItle.

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