Teologia no Proslogion de Anselmo de Cantuária

• Autor(a) principal: Athayde, Emmanuel Roberto Leal de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25562
• topic: Idade Média; Anselmo de Cantuária; Deus; teologia; filosofia; Middle Age; Anselm of Canterbury; God; theology; philosophy; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

Anselm of Canterbury is a figure of the Middle Ages, considered the father of scholastic theology. As archbishop of Canterbury, he gained notoriety from his, later denominated, ontological argument, which presented, by use of philosophical concepts, a unique argument, capable of demonstrating the existence of God. This unique argument is found in the Proslogion, a book that addresses the existence of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived , considered a simplification of the Monologion, his previous work. By reading Anselm, his intension of addressing faith and reason is explicit, as, by working with a rational argument, he sought to explain something in which he previously believed. There is some research on Anselm and his argument, however, the main focus of these works lay on his philisofical reasoning, without exploring their theological matters. From this observation, the present research seeks to demonstrate the exposition of theological ideias in the Proslogion, expounding them under the comment of contemporary dogmatic theology. Also, consideration on the medieval context, the cultural, social, scholastic, theological and philosofical backgrounds and others, help comprehend the anselmian thought.