10. St. Anselm

[wayneg]

Anselm, a wonderful model to emulate, thanks Bruce for your guidance.

[anselman]

I am always greatly impressed and informed by your talks. I especially enjoyed this on on my hero. You have an excellent teaching manner, and your students are very fortunate. God bless you.

[roberttaylor]

I so enjoyed this lecture. Thank you again.

[parthasart]

I am from India and is deeply addicted to your videos specially because the way you deliver each of your lectures

[miriamkling]

I enjoy your presentation. Thank you for sharing.

[jillcline]

Thank you ... I needed to hear this story of Anselm ... I needed to hear of his family & running ... I needed to hear of the rabbit's refuge under the horse ... I needed to hear of Anselm's educating the other monks on how to offer refuge to what might appear to be scared and undeserving creatures ... I recently read this quote attributed to him, "I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand: for this I also believe, that unless I believe I will not understand."
This lecture of yours (and a couple of others) have helped me reconcile a bare basic understanding of the Atonement ...

[chrisranson]

With a church history exam next week on Anselm, this has been particularly helpful. Thank you so much for the upload, I have enjoyed a number of your videos.

[lookingglassfull]

Great series.!!! The hunt is over. NO docu-DRAMA here! Just good learning. And surprisingly no heavily biased overtones. I find myself anticipating the next upload.

I hope that when I listen to the previous series it will be available as a playlist. ;)

[fotisvon]

this one was particularly enjoyable, thanks

[Thea_MojaveOutliersWhipmakers]

At 30:00, roughly, you start talking about "Cur Deus Homo." I find to my delight (so far) that you have a whole lecture on this. If anyone wants to know, it's in the playlist on this channel titled "Philosophy and History of Christian Thought, " number 35. The question I have has to do with "God created us [humans] to glorify him..." I guess my question, in modern vernacular, is what does that even mean? Because I don't think it has to do with God's vanity...anyway, I'm trying to decide right now whether to pause and go listen to Lecture #35, or keep going here, and go back to it...

[stevecrawford]

Hello brother Gore;
Have you ever read "Evangelical Churches Of The Valley Of The Peadmonts"?
I have lost track of my edition but I think this is the correct title. I wished I had subscribed and liked your exposition sooner; I plan on sitting through this whole series. Wow, what a prolific historian.

[gabrielrenfro]

These lecture are so great. Where did you get the biographical information for Anselm? I would love to read the source material for this lecture.

[johnwesleygibson]

Very sorry I enjoy your lectures but King Henry I was the son of King William I "Conqueror" not William II "Rufus" and also Canterbury Cathedral is not in London but in Canterbury England.

[ivarhakuse]

Love the Picture/ poster stating 'History of God's People' Does that mean that there are also those who are 'Not God's people'? Is god choosing people now? interesting concept, Lets all pray that God isn't suffering religious prejudice and intolerance. We don't him to lose his job by getting fired because of it. With all the equal opportunities in job applications. The ability to contest and take employers to court. Government guidelines, rules and regulations etc. UN Human rights, 1st amendment of US constitution. We all need to be cautious of not incriminating ourselves and that includes God that's all. Maybe he's going to be in need of a good lawyer and we all know how much they can cost.

[Marilia]

Dr Bruce I want to know was the Canterbury Cathedral a Catholic Church in 1109 ? the Protestant Reform started in 1517 with Martin Luther.

[armandoeng]

Why they focuses on men on education and betterment? Because men is made on the image of God, the women is made on the image of men. God made women for other things. Besides that, that is a utilitarian motif as well. To not invest on a women, the worst will happen to her is she will become a mother (oh, the horror). But to not invest on a men, he could become a thief, a raider, a vagabund, a murder. And that is much worse for the poor guy and for the society. It us nowadays that are doing wrong, not them at that time.

[CatholicK]

So you appreciate the great works of the monks, but then reject the idea of being a monk as a great vocation? The idea of being celibate for God comes straight from the gospels. St. Paul and several other Apostles were celibate. St. Paul said that it would be great if everyone could be celibate like himself, but recognized that it was good for some to get married. This is not an insult to marriage. It is simply showing that someone spiritually marying God is a high calling, and that marriage is also good - neither is good for everyone. Many of the early Christian women were proto-nuns, taking vows of celibacy before nuns even existed - this clearly was a calling they felt from the Holy Spirit. I think I will trust St. Paul more than Luther. I am grateful that St. Anselm became a monk and that his patriarch saw that he would make a good one - without this we may have never received some of his great works that he made.

[claytonbenignus]

Footnote: St. Anselm's Ontological Proof of the Existence of God reaches a 20th Century climax at the hands of Mathematician Kurt Godel, who expresses it in purely symbolic logic.

[RosesandLace]

Martin Luther rejected the idea of marital fidelity. So much for the ideal of protestant family life - a blesserer of polygamy and adultery, not to mention a breaker of his own and his wife's "marriage vows" to God!