CRITICISM

Bäck, Allan. “Anselm on Perfect Islands.” Franciscan Studies 43 (1983): 188-204.

Schematizes Anselm's counterargument to Gaunilo regarding that critic's objection to his lost, perfect island line of reasoning originally laid out in the Proslogion.

Bestul, Thomas H. “St. Anselm, the Monastic Community at Canterbury, and Devotional Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England.” Anselm Studies: An Occasional Journal 1 (1983): 186-98.

Reviews the manuscript tradition of Anselm's collected prayers and meditations Orationes sive meditationes.

Bourke, Vernon J. “A Millennium of Christian Platonism: Augustine, Anselm, and Ficino.” Proceedings of the PMR Conference 10 (1985): 1-22.

Briefly encapsulates Anselm's philosophical thought, calling it “Theocentric Platonism,” as part of a combined survey of developments in Christian Platonism from the fifth to the fifteenth century.

Colish, Marcia L. “Anselm: The Definition of the Word.” In The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge, pp. 55-109. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Detailed exposition of the proofs for the existence of God found in Anselm's Monologion, Proslogion and Contra Gaunilonem, studied within the context of his collected theological writings.

Evans, Gillian R. “Sententiola ad Aedificationem: The Dicta of St. Anselm and St. Bernard.” Revue Bénédictine 92, no. 1-2 (1982): 159-71.

Concentrates on the didactic sayings, parables, and exempla of Saints Anselm and Bernard as significant indicators of their pedagogical and theological methods frequently dismissed by modern editors and commentators.

Fröhlich, Walter. “The Genesis of the Collections of St. Anselm's Letters.” American Benedictine Review 35, no. 3 (September 1984): 249-66.

Endeavors to reconstruct the manner and timeframe within which Anselm created his collection of personal correspondence.

Gollnick, James. “Jungian Reflections on Transformation in St. Anselm's Theology.” American Benedictine Review 36, no. 4 (December 1985): 353-71.

Draws parallels between the theories of human transformation expressed by Anselm in his theological writings and those of psychologist Carl Jung.

Olds, Marshall. “Note on Mallarmé and Anselm.” French Literature Series 6 (1979): 131-34.

Suggests the influence of Anselm on Stéphane Mallarmé by highlighting affinities between the Proslogion and the French writer's “Prose pour des Esseintes.”

Pegis, Anton C. “St. Anselm and the Argument of the Proslogion.” Mediaeval Studies 28 (1966): 248-51.

Summarizes and explains Anselm's principal arguments for the existence of God in the early chapters of the Proslogion.

Pranger, M. B. “Masters of Suspense: Argumentation and Imagination in Anselm, Bernard, and Calvin.” Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts 1 (1981): 15-33.

Contrasts the diverse linguistic strategies and methods of argumentation used by Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, and John Calvin in their approaches to understanding identity.

Rasmussen, Carl J. “Karl Barth on St. Anselm: A Theological Response to the Dilemma of Liberal Theory.” Graven Images: A Journal of Culture, Law, and the Sacred 1 (1994): 37-51.

Argues that Karl Barth's 1931 study Anselm: Fides Quarens Intellectum: Anselm's Proof of the Existence of God in the Context of His Theological Scheme offers valuable insights toward the resolution of disputes in contemporary liberal philosophical theory.

Seifert, Josef. “Si Deus Est Deus, Deus Est: Reflections on St. Bonaventure's Interpretation of St. Anselm's Ontological Argument.” Franciscan Studies 52 (1992): 215-31.

Defends St. Bonaventure's ideas in regard to the ontological argument of Anselm.

Weaver, J. Denny. “Violence in Christian Theology.” CrossCurrents 51, no. 2 (summer 2001): 150-76.

Invokes Anselm's theological theory of satisfaction atonement (articulated in Cur Deus Homo and involving the universal ameliorative effect of the death of Jesus on human sin) in order to explore the paradoxical role of violence in Christian theology.

Additional coverage of Anselm's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 115.