Medieval Agnus Dei with halo ( religious iconography ) | halo and cross ; Euphrasian Basilica, Poreč, Croatia. The 11th century Christology of Saint Anselm of Canterbury specifically disassociates Lamb of God from the Old Testament concept of an Scape goat which is subjected to punishment for the sins of others, without knowing it or willing it.

Descartes argued further that this knowledge could lead to a proof of the certainty of the existence of God, using the ontological argument that had been formulated first by Anselm of Canterbury.

On the other hand, Anselm of Canterbury seems to think that almightiness is one of the things that makes God count as omnipotent.

In the 11th century, St. Anselm argues that there are many things that God cannot do, but that nonetheless he counts as omnipotent.

Anselm argued that the insult given to God is so great that only a perfect sacrifice could satisfy and Jesus, being both God and man, was this perfect sacrifice.

* Anselm of Canterbury: Anselm is best known for the ontological argument for God's existence, i. e.: God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived.

However, as above Saint Anselm and John Calvin's view reject the Scapegoat symbolism for they view Jesus as making a knowing sacrifice as an agent of God, unlike an unwitting Scapegoat.

" Anselm thought that God did not feel emotions such as anger or love, but appeared to do so through our imperfect understanding.

The concept of impassibility was developed by medieval theologians like Anselm and continues to be in tension with more emotional concepts of God.

) As philosopher and Anselm scholar Katherin A. Rogers observes, many contemporary philosophers of religion suppose that there are true propositions which exist as platonic abstracta independently of God.

Further solutions to the existence of God have been proposed by St. Anselm, who formulated the first ontological argument ; Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ) and Aquinas, who presented their own versions of the cosmological argument ( the kalam argument and the first way ), respectively ; Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God was logically necessary for the evidence of the senses to be meaningful ; and Immanuel Kant, who argued that the existence of God can be deduced from the existence of good.

While most theologians ( e. g. Anselm of Canterbury, René Descartes, and Gottfried Leibniz ) considered God as logically necessary being, Richard Swinburne argued for factual necessity, and Alvin Plantinga argues that God is a causally necessary being.

Another important argument for proof of the existence of God was the ontological argument, advanced by St. Anselm.

Anselm of Canterbury, a priest, monk, and philosopher defined God as the " Being than which no greater can be conceived.

Anselm of Canterbury composed the ontological argument for the existence of God, which he believed to be irrefutable.

Anselm claimed his ontological argument as proof of the existence of God, whom he described as that being for which no greater can be conceived.

Thus, according to St. Anselm, the concept of God necessarily entails His existence.

Only God, as Anselm defines him, meets all of those criteria and can, therefore, be dubbed a necessary being.

Anselm speaks of human sin as defrauding God of the honour he is due.

Over time, based on the influence of Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and others, the Kyrios image of Jesus began to be supplemented with a more " tender image of Jesus ", and the Franciscan approach to popular piety was instrumental in establishing this image.

Following the concept of Anselm of Canterbury, the crucifixion is the endpoint and the source of redemption ; the emphasis is on the suffering of Jesus.

Anselm did not state specifically whether Jesus ' payment of debt was for all of mankind as a group or for individual people, but his language leans in the former direction.

Anselm promptly came forward and took the duke by surprise, saying " My lord duke, suffer me to embrace thee.

He retained the king's trust, for Rufus employed him in 1095 along with William Warelwast on a diplomatic mission to Pope Urban II regarding Archbishop Anselm receiving the pallium, the sign of an archbishop's authority.

In 1108, Ranulf was dragged into the middle of the ongoing dispute between Archbishop Anselm and the newly appointed Archbishop of York, Thomas over whether or not Thomas should profess obedience to Anselm.

Soon after his translation to York, Gerard began a long dispute with Anselm, claiming equal primacy with the Archbishop of Canterbury and refusing to make a profession of canonical obedience to Anselm, part of the long Canterbury – York dispute.

Gerard agreed to a compromise on the matter of obedience to Anselm.

Bloet also refused to profess obedience to Anselm, but when King William intervened on Anselm's side, Bloet made the profession to Anselm.

Anselm had told the bishops before his death that he felt that Thomas must make a profession of obedience, and obediently the bishops appealed to the king's court to make Thomas do so.

This is a concept similar to Anselm's that we owe a debt of honor to God, with a critical difference: While Anselm said we could never pay this because any good we could do was owed to God anyway, Aquinas says that in addition to our due of obedience we can make up for our debt through acts of penance " man owes God all that he is able to give him ... over and above which he can offer something by way of satisfaction ".

To retain the appearance of dogma he admitted that the three Divine Persons had but one will and power ... quod Roscelinus clericus dicit in tres personas esse tres res ab invicem separatas, sicut sunt tres angeli, ita tamen ut una sit voluntas et potestas aut Patrem et Spiritum sanctum esse incarnatum ; et tres deos vere posse dici si usus admitteret ( letter of Anselm to Foulques ).

Anselm is sometimes misleadingly called the " Father of scholasticism ," owing to the prominence accorded to reason in his theology.

* Father Anselm Parker OSB ( 1909 – 1920 )

Anselm of Canterbury is sometimes misleadingly called the ' Father of Scholasticism ' because of the prominent place that reason has in his theology ; instead of establishing his points by appeal to authority, he presents arguments to demonstrate why it is that the things he believes on authority must be so.

He served under Presidents Father Peter and Father Jonathan DeFelice and helped lead Saint Anselm College through four decades of expansion ; he was awarded an honorary degree in 1999.

Father Maurice was retired in 1962 due to illness and Father Anselm Ernest Gouveia, SS. CC., was appointed pastor after serving the faithful as pastor in Kaneohe.

* Father Anselm

In response, the Catholic Vicar General, Father Anselm Bourke, established the Education Defence League with the assistance of Molloy and fellow Catholic MLAs Timothy Quinlan and Alfred Canning.

Anselm de Guibours ( b. 1625 ) ( Father Anselm of the Blessed Mary, O. A. D.,, or simply Père Anselme ) was a French Discalced Augustinian friar and noted genealogist.

After Fourny's death in 1713, the task was taken up and continued by two other friars of the monastery where Father Anselm had spent his life: Father Angel of St. Rosalie ( 1655 – 1726 ), together with Father Simplician ( 1683 – 1759 ), who published the first and second volumes of the third edition in 1726.

The work of Father Anselm, his collaborators and successors, is even more important for the history of France than is William Dugdale's Baronage of England for the history of England.

The Catholic Vicar General, Father Anselm Bourke, established the Education Defence League with their assistance.