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Anselm & Ralph of Battle A Lecture
3rd June 2021: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm BST
Anselm and his students on our relationship to non-human creatures
Anselm’s friend and rival Ralph of Battle was arguably the most original theologian and philosopher of Lanfranc‘s circle, alongside Gilbert Crispin. Prof Goebel is editing one of Ralph’s major works, Meditatio Christiani de fide, inspired by the Monologion and Boethius’ De fide catholica. Four MSS survive, two of them in Oxford. Ralph’s anti-Anselmian claim that natural theology covers but a limited part of Christian theology, and his rejection of Anselm’s proof of God’s existence in favour of a cosmological argument, both seem to prefigure Aquinas.
Prof Dr Bernd Goebel (Faculty of Theology, Fulda).
Contact:
Aquinas Institute
aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk