Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
Thursday, April 17, 2020
8:00PM ET
Registration required
Join us on Thursday, April 16th, at 8:00PM ET (7:00PM CT) for the second installment of the Lumen Christi Institute’s Spring Webinar Series, Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought. Professor Aaron Canty, who teaches theology and medieval thought at Saint Xavier University, will present on “Anselm of Canterbury and the Rationality of Faith” on Zoom. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.
Anselm was a startlingly original monastic writer and thinker who drank deeply of Augustinian and patristic theology but formulated his own theological and philosophical writings in spare and compelling chains of reasoning. His Why God Became Man, Monologion, and Proslogion each chart new ways to practice 'believing in order to understand (credo ut intelligam).'
This event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required. For more information and to register for this webinar, click here.
Aaron Canty is professor of religious studies at Saint Xavier University. His current research focuses on the development of medieval Christology, eschatology, and scriptural exegesis. He is author of Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (Catholic University of America Press, 2011), A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages, eds. Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty (Leiden: Brill, 2017), and an edition of excerpts from John of La Rochelle’s commentaries on the Synoptic Gospels (in Archivum Franciscanum Historicum).