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For nearly one thousand years, theologians, philosophers, and Christian apologists have felt the effects of Anselm of Canterbury. Anselm’s theological method was rigorous, and represented a seismic shift in medieval thought. He is widely considered the founder scholastic theology, and he has been called the church’s “second Augustine.” His treatise on the atonement, Cur Deus Homo was the first to...

Boso. I cannot deny that. Anselm. Therefore to sin is nothing else than not to render to God his due. Boso. What is the debt which we owe to God? Anselm. Every wish of a rational creature should be subject to the will of God. Boso. Nothing is more true. Anselm. This is the debt which man and angel owe to God, and no one who pays this debt commits sin; but every one who does not pay it sins. This is justice, or uprightness of will, which makes a being just or upright in heart, that is, in will; and
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