Eileen C. Sweeney is professor of philosophy at Boston College and author of Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille.
Offers some highly illustrative examples of how authoritative
writings, both scriptural and patristic, play their role in
Anselm's endeavor to clarify the content of faith with the aid of
reason. Sweeney is well informed about recent studies on different
areas of Anselm's thought and makes good use of them. The work is
carefully documented and well written... Highly recommmended to
anyone striving to achieve a historically grounded understanding of
Anselm's oeurve."" - Journal of the History of Philosophy
""Rarely is a book reviewer more grateful for the chance to engage
a demanding study than in this case. Sweeney, professor of
philosophy at Boston College, provides the academy with a superb,
chronological overview and an in-depth and judicious exposition of
Anselm of Canterbury's impressive oeuvre... Her book is warmly
recommended as reading for anyone seriously interested in
Anselmiana."" - Speculum
""It is difficult to do justice to this excellent book in a brief
review, for Eileen Sweeney offers us a wide-ranging account of what
she calls Anselm's ""project,"" doing so through careful attention
to Anselm's texts and discussions of Anselm in the secondary
literature."" - New Blackfriars
""A landmark piece on Anselm, a narrative in which episodes are
arguments punctuated by paradox and desire (duly supplemented, of
course, with an encyclopedic consideration of the secondary
literature). Anyone proposing an alternative narrative, the
narrative of a reckless rationalist or a mystagogue for example,
will find Sweeney a formidable opponent."" - American Catholic
Philosophical Quarterly
""A vivid, compelling intellectual portrait, and certainly one of
the most significant studies of Anselm to be published in the last
two decades."" - Choice
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