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Supplementary Anselm-Bibliography 11 SUPPLEMENTARY ANSELM-BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography is supplementary to the bibliographies contained in the following previous works of mine: J. Hopkins, A Companion to the Study of St. Anselm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972. _________. Anselm of Canterbury: Volume Four: Hermeneutical and Textual Problems in the Complete Treatises of St. Anselm. New York: Mellen Press, 1976. _________. A New, Interpretive Translation of St. Anselm’s Monologion and Proslogion. Minneapolis: Banning Press, 1986. Abulafia, Anna S. “St Anselm and Those Outside the Church,” pp. 11-37 in David Loades and Katherine Walsh, editors, Faith and Identity: Christian Political Experience. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Adams, Marilyn M. “Saint Anselm’s Theory of Truth,” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, I, 2 (1990), 353-372. _________. “Fides Quaerens Intellectum: St. Anselm’s Method in Philosophical Theology,” Faith and Philosophy, 9 (October, 1992), 409-435. _________. “Praying the Proslogion: Anselm’s Theological Method,” pp. 13-39 in Thomas D. Senor, editor, The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. _________. “Satisfying Mercy: St. Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo Reconsidered,” The Modern Schoolman, 72 (January/March, 1995), 91-108. _________. “Elegant Necessity, Prayerful Disputation: Method in Cur Deus Homo,” pp. 367-396 in Paul Gilbert et al., editors, Cur Deus Homo. Rome: Prontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, 1999. _________. “Romancing the Good: God and the Self according to St. Anselm of Canterbury,” pp. 91-109 in Gareth B. Matthews, editor, The Augustinian Tradition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. _________. “Re-reading De Grammatico or Anselm’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Categories,” Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale, XI (2000), 83-112. _________. “Anselm on Faith and Reason,” pp. 32-60 in Brian Davies and Brian Leftow, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Anselm. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004. _________. “Evil as Nothing: Contrasting Construals in Boethius and Anselm,” Modern Schoolman, 89 (July-October, 2012), 131-145. Aertsen, J. A. “Wendingen in waarheid. Anselmus van Canterbury, Thomas van Aquino en Vico,” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (Louvain), 49 (June, 1987), 187-229. Aikin, Scott and Michael Hodges. “St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument as Expressive: A Wittgensteinian Reconstruction,” Philosophical Investi- 1 2 Supplementary Anselm-Bibliography gations, 37 (April, 2014), 130-151. Aird, William M. “Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Charismatic Authority,” Religions, 5 (No. 1, 2014), 90-108. Aiton, Eric J. “ Infinitesmals and the Area Law,” pp. 285-305 in Fritz Krafft et al., Internationales Kepler-Symposium, Weil der Stadt 1971. Referate und Diskussionen. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1973. Alameda, Julián. “ Teologia de San Anselmo. ¿Por qué Dios se hizo hombre?” Rivista Española de Teología, 12 (July-September, 1952), 374-380. Alberto, Mila. “Anselmo d’Aosta: la genesi della logica dalla teologia,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 90 (October-December, 1998), 126-132. _________. “Significatio e usus loquendi nel Cur Deus homo,” pp. 397-409 in Paul Gilbert et al., editors, Cur Deus Homo. Rome: Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, 1999. _________. “Ricerche sulle fonti della teoria dei paronimi di Anselmo d’Aosta,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 93 (January-March, 2001), 3-38. Allinson, Robert E. “Anselm’s One Argument, Philosophical Inquiry, 15 (Winter- Spring, 1993), 16-19. Andrus, Gabriel D. “Anselm of Canterbury and Dionysius the Areopagite’s Reflections on he Incomprehensibility of God,” Heythrop Journal, (April, 2014), 1-13 (online early-view pages). Anscombe, G. E. M. “Por qué la prueba de Anselmo en el ‘Proslogion’ non es un argumento ontológico,” Anuario Filosofico (Pamplona), 15 (1982), Issue 2, pp. 9-18. [See the English version “Why Anselm’s Proof in the Proslogion Is Not an Ontological Argument,” The Thoreau Quarterly, 17 (Winter-Spring, 1985), 32-40. See also the repetition (of Anscombe’s basic idea) in “Descartes and Anselm,” pp. 15-18 in Jerzy Perzanowski, editor, Essays on Philosophy and Logic. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 1987. Anscombe’s basic idea is criticized by me in the introductory section of my book A New, Interpretive Translation of St. Anselm’s Monologion and Proslogion (Minneapolis: Banning, 1986).] _________. “Russelm or Anselm?” Philosophical Quarterly, 43 (October, 1993), 500-504. [Anselm of Canterbury]. Du réalisme en théologie et en philosophie. Opuscules sur le dogme de la Trinité et l’incarnation du Verbe, et sur la conception vir- ginale et le péché originel, par saint Anselme [Anselm’s De Incarnatione Verbi and De Conceptu Virginale translated into Frency by Gerard C. Ubaghs]. Louvain: Typographie de Vanlinthout, 1856. [Two years earlier Ubaghs translated the Monologion and the Proslogion into French.] _________. Entretiens Spirituels (de Similitudinibus) de Saint Anselme. Translated into French by the nuns of the Convent of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers. Lille: Desclée de Brouwer, 1924. _________. Perchè un Dio uomo. Translated into Italian and introduced by Dario Cumer. Alba: Edizioni Paoline, 1966. _________. Meditazioni. Translated into Italian and introduced by Calogero Allegro. Rome: Città Nuova Editrice, 1973. _________. Anselmo d’Aosta. Lettere. Translated into Italian by Aldo Granata; introduced by Giorgio Picasso et al. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book, 1988 (2 Supplementary Anselm-Bibliography 3 vols.). _________. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works. Translated by Brian Davies and Gillian R. Evans. New York: Oxford, 1998. _________. Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury. Translated by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson. Minneapolis: Banning Press, 2000. _________. La caduta del diavolo. Translated into Italian by Giacobbe Elia and Giancarlo Marchetti. Milan: Bompiani, 2006. Antonelli, M. T. “ Il significato del Proslogion di Anselmo d’Aosta,” Rivista Rosminiana, 45 (1951), 260-268. Ardini, Maria L. “ ‘Sola ratione procedamus’ (Cur Deus Homo, 1, 20). Tradizione e novità nel segno semantico anselmiano: ‘Sola ratione’. Le fonti, I: Sant’ Agostino,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 83 (January-June, 1991), 90-141. Armour, Leslie. “Newman, Anselm and Proof of the Existence of God,” Inter- national Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 19 (1986), 87-93. Asiedu, Felix B. “Anselm and the Unbelievers: Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Cur Deus Homo,” Theological Studies, 62 (September, 2001), 530-548. _________. “Anselm, The Ethics of Solidarity and the Ideology of Crusade,” American Benedictine Review, 53 (March, 2002), 42-59. _________. “ The Elusive Face of Modern Platonism: Iris Murdoch on Anselm and the Ontological Argument,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 76 (Summer, 2002), 393-410. _________. From Augustine to Anselm: The Influence of De Trinitate on the Mono- logion. Turnhout, Belgium. Brepols, 2012. Askew, Reginald. “Dom Anselm and Dame Iris,” Theology, 103 (August, 2000), 259-265. Aspenson, Steven S. “In Defense of Anselm,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 7 (January, 1990), 33-45. Aubourg, Gastone. “Le fonti vive della teologia di S. Anselmo (La Regola nella formazione di un Dottore della Chiesa),” Benedictina, 3 (July-December, 1949), 189-201. Baark, Sigurd. “Anselm: Platonism, Language and Truth in Proslogion,” Scottish Journal of Theology, 63 (November, 2010), 379-397. Bächli, Andreas. “Anselm von Canterburys Definition der Wahrheit,” Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie, (2004), 210-221. Bäck, Allan. “Anselm on Perfect Islands,” Franciscan Studies, 43 (1983), 188- 204. Baird, Forrest E. “A Simple Version of Anselm’s Argument,” Teaching Philosophy, 18 (September, 1995), 245-249. Baker, John R. “Must the God-Man Die?” pp. 609-620 in Paul Gilbert et al., edi- tors, Cur Deus Homo. Rome: Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo, 1999. Baker, Lynne R. and Gareth B. Matthews. “Anselm’s Argument Reconsidered,” Review of Metaphysics, 64 (September, 2010), 31-54. _________. “Updating Anselm Again,” Res Philosophica, 90 (January, 2013), 23- 32. Baldassarri, Mariano. “Lo stoicismo antico e l’argomento ontologico,” Rivista di 4 Supplementary Anselm-Bibliography Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 63 (July-August, 1971), 391-418 and 63 (September-December, 1971), 547-574. Balthasar, Hans Urs von. “Anselm,” pp. 211-259 in Vol. II of his The Glory of the Lord. Translated into English by Andrew Louth et al.; edited by John Riches. Edinburgh: Clark, 1984. Barker, Lynn K. “Ivo of Chartres and Anselm of Canterbury,” Anselm Studies II (1988), 13-33. Bârliba, Ionut,. “St. Anselm of Canterbury on Sin and Will. Short Critical Overview,” Hermeneia. Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory and Criti- cism, 13 (2013), 85-94. Barnwell, Michael. “A Negligent Omission at the Root of All Sinfulness: Anselm and the Devil,” Chapter 3 (pp. 71-95) in his The Problem of Negligent Omissions: Medieval Action Theories to the Rescue. Boston: Brill, 2010. Bar-On, A. Zvie. “Knowledge and Belief in St. Anselm’s Proof,” pp. 125-130 in Wolfgang L. Gombocz, editor, Philosophy of Religion [Proceedings of the Eighth International Wittgenstein Symposium. Part 2]. Vienna: Hölder- Pichler-Tempsky, 1984. Barral, Mary-Rose. “Reflections on Anselm’s Friendship and Conversatio,” Anselm Studies, II (1988), 165-182. Barrett, Clint I. “A Careful Reading of St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument,” Philosophy and Theology, 23 (2011), 217-230. Barry, David. “Anselm’s Argument:
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