This book is in, in fact, Anselm's earliest treatise, written when he was prior of the monastery at Bec, after numerous requests by his fellow monks that he write down some of the arguments, reflections, and explanations about the divine substance that he was providing them with in his teaching and conversations.
I shot and uploaded this sequence of videos, covering most of the chapters and topics in the Monologion. For whoever would like to watch and use them, here they are - all 24 of them.
- The Doctrine of Participation
- Degrees of Being
- Arguing to the Supreme Good
- Arguing to the Supreme Being
- The Supreme Being's Existence Per Se
- Creation Ex Nihilo
- Things Existing in the Divine Word
- Three Kinds of Expression
- What Can Be Affirmed of the Divine
- Divine Simplicity
- Divine Ubiquity
- Divine Eternity
- Divine Substance and Other Substances
- Divine Word as Utterance and Essence
- The Word's Expression of Created Being
- The Unity of the Father and Son
- Father and Son as Essence of Each Other
- The Trinity of the Divine Substance
- Grasping The Divine Through Images
- The Human Mind as Mirror of the Divine
- The Rational Creature's Love of the Divine
- Eternal Happiness or Misery
- Love, Hope, and Faith
I'll be producing further videos on Anselm later on this Fall, starting with his next main work, the Proslogion. If you're interested in further study of Anselm's texts with me specifically, I will be teaching an online course on Anselm later on this Fall, and I'm always available for tutorial sessions.
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