Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Saint Anselm of Canterbury Who strives to lift his mind to the contemplation of God, and seeks to understand what he believes.

The most important Christian theologian in the West between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. His two great accomplishments are his Proslogium (in which he undertakes to show that Reason requires that men should believe in God), and his Cur Deus Homo? (in which he undertakes to show that Divine Love responding to human rebelliousness requires that God should become a man). The page's posts here are mo

stly the translated words of Anselm. Words in square brackets [ ] or double quotes are often the words of others such as biographers, translators, philosophers, medieval scholars, or the Anselmian mediators of this page.

For if anyone doubts that a horse is by nature better than a tree and that a man is more excellent than a horse, then su...
10/03/2026

For if anyone doubts
that a horse is by nature better than a tree
and that a man is more excellent than a horse,
then surely this [person] ought not to be called a man.

—Anselm of Cantebury (AD 1076).
In 'Monologion'

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Canterbury Cathedral, Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts
Canterbury
CT1 2EH

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