Anselm may refer to any of several historical figures:
Saint Anselm (died in 805) the Duke of Forum Julii, (modern Friuli), in the northeastern part of Lombard Italy, left the world at the height of his secular career, and in 750 built a monastery at Fanano, a place given to him by Aistulf, King of the Lombards, who had married...
Anselm, 8th-century Abbot of Nonantula
Saint Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 or 1034 - April 21, 1109), a widely influential medieval philosopher and theologian, held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of Scholasticism, he is famous as the inventor of the ontological argument for the existence of god. Biography Anselm...
Anselm of Canterbury (ca 1033 - 1109), Archbishop of Canterbury
Anselm of Laon (died 1117) was a French theologian. Born of very humble parents at Laon before the middle of the 11th century, he is said to have studied under St. Anselm at Bec. In about 1076 he was teaching with great success at Paris, where, as the associate of...
Anselm of Laon (died 1117), Medieval theologian
Anselm of Liège (1008-1056), chronicler
Saint Anselm of Lucca (ca 1036 - 1086)
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Anselm was born in the city of Aosta in the Kingdom of Burgundy.
Anselm was received with high honour by Urban, and at a great council held at Bari, he was put forward to defend the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Ghost against the representatives of the Greek Church.
Anselm was the first Christian theologian to develop a detailed atonement theory in the history of Western theology.
Anselm framed the argument as a reductio ad absurdum wherein he tried to show that the assumption that God does not exist leads to a logical contradiction.
One of the earliest recorded objections to Anselm's argument was raised by one of Anselm's contemporaries, Gaunilo.
Obviously Anselm thought this argument was valid and persuasive, and it still has occasional defenders, but many, perhaps most, contemporary philosophers believe that the ontological argument, at least as Anselm articulated it, does not stand up to strict logical scrutiny.
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