5.8 St. Anselm of Canterbury: Doctor of the Atonement
By Dr. James Papandrea ( bio - articles - email ) | Apr 09, 2025 | In Way of the Fathers (Podcast)
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St. Anselm (1033—1109 AD) was Abbot of the monastery of Bec, and later, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was the first of the medieval scholastics, and the first real systematic theologian. In many ways, St. Anselm is the bridge between St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Links
To read Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo online: https://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/ans/ans117.htm
To read several of the most important works of St. Anselm, get the book Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anselm-of-canterbury-the-major-works-9780199540082?q=Anselm%20major%20works&lang=en&cc=us
For more on the medieval scholastics, the atonement, and St. Anselm, see the book Reading the Church Fathers: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/reading-the-church-fathers/
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Dr. James Papandrea is a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and a Catholic member of the faculty at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. A theological consultant for EWTN’s series The Heresies, he is also the writer and presenter for The Original Church series on YouTube. See full bio.
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