International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 69 (2):73-89 (2011)
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This paper considers Anselm’s Proslogion argument against a background of historical events that include philosophical disputes between Christian and Jewish polemicists. I argue that the Proslogion argument was addressed, in part, to non-Christian theists and that it offered a response to Jewish polemicists who had argued that the Christian conception of God as an instantiated unity was irrational. Anselm is not trying to convince atheists that there really is a God. He is arguing that the Christian conception of God is logically coherent
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Keywords | Existential Necessity Instantiation Polemics Incarnation Unbecoming Fittingness |
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DOI | 10.1007/s11153-010-9265-2 |
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