St. Anselm of Canterbury

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Cur Deus Homo1094–1098 ADA dialogue exploring why God became man, arguing that the Incarnation and atoning death of Christ were necessary to restore the honor due to God which human sin had taken away.
Monologiumc. 1076 ADA meditation on the being of God, proving by reason alone the existence and attributes of the supreme Being, his triune nature, and the purpose of rational creation.
Proslogium1077–1078 ADAnselm's celebrated ontological argument for the existence of God, presented as a prayer-meditation. Defines God as 'a being than which nothing greater can be conceived' and proves this being must necessarily exist.

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