Christ, the Power and Possibility of God in St. Anselm of Canterbury

Q2 Arts and Humanities TheoLogica Pub Date : 2018-12-12 DOI:10.14428/THL.V3I1.2323
J. Mcintosh
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In this article I examine the modal theism of St. Anselm of Canterbury, arguing that the person of the divine Son plays an important role in how Anselm thinks about God’s power and possibilities. Beginning with his first major theological work, the Monologion, I show how Anselm’s characterizes God’s knowledge of creation, not in the traditional, Augustinian terms of an intellectual divine “idea,” but in the comparatively more linguistic terms of a divine “locutio” or “utterance.” I go on to argue that this sets Anselm up for a somewhat unique modal theology, one in which God is best understood as acting and creating, not against the backdrop of an already defined and existing domain of possibilities, but in a way that makes him the inventor and creator of his own possibilities. In the second part of the article, I turn to Anselm’s influential work of Christology, Cur Deus Homo, to examine how his “theistic actualism” is paralleled in select aspects of his account of the divine Son’s Incarnation in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
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基督,上帝的力量和可能性在坎特伯雷圣安瑟伦
在这篇文章中,我考察了坎特伯雷圣安瑟伦的模态有神论,认为圣子的人在安瑟伦如何思考上帝的力量和可能性方面起着重要作用。从他的第一部主要神学著作《神论》开始,我将展示安瑟伦是如何描述上帝对创造的知识的,他不是用传统的奥古斯丁式的智慧的神圣“观念”,而是用相对更语言学的方式,用神圣的“话语”或“话语”。我接着认为,这为安瑟姆建立了一种独特的模态神学,在这种神学中,上帝最好被理解为行动和创造,而不是在一个已经定义和存在的可能性领域的背景下,而是在某种程度上使他成为自己可能性的发明者和创造者。在文章的第二部分,我转向安瑟伦的影响深远的基督论著作《你是人》(Cur Deus Homo),来研究他的“有神论的现实主义”如何与他对圣子化身为耶稣基督的个人和工作的描述的某些方面相对应。
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