God, The Maker of All Things

“That God is whatever is better to be than not to be and that, existing through Himself, alone, He makes all other things from nothing” (Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion, ch. 5). Such is the title of Anselm’s 5th chapter of the Proslogion, where Anselm offers us a...

Anselm and the Existence of God

“And surely that than which a greater cannot be thought cannot exist in the mind alone. For if it exists solely in the mind, it can be thought to exist in reality also, which is greater” (Anselm, Proslogion, ch. 2). Anselm’s second chapter of the Proslogion is one of...