Reading Anselm: Context and Criticism

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Wednesday 29 October 2008

St Anselm's College, NH - 'Faith and Reason from Saint Anselm to Pope Benedict XVI'

Details of the call for papers and relevant forms for the Anselm conference to be held at St Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, from 17 to 18 April 2009, can be found here.

Monday 27 October 2008

List Closed - 76 papers accepted for conference

The organising committee for the Anselm 2009 conference at Canterbury has announced that the deadline for proposals has passed and the no further papers will be accepted for the conference. The response to the call for papers has been very encouraging and we can look forward to what will be a truly international conference in Canterbury next April.

Details of speakers and papers can be found here.

Thursday 2 October 2008

Keynote Speakers for Canterbury conference announced

They are:

Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford)
Paper Title: 'St. Anselm on the Goodness of God'

Professor Costante Marabelli (Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano)
Paper Title: ‘The Relation between Theory and Practice for Saint Anselm’

Professor Volker Leppin (Dekan, Theologische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Paper Title: ‘Praying and thinking with Anselm: The Tractatus de primo principio of John Duns Scotus’

Aosta Conference and Celebration

Dates for the 2009 Anselm Conference in Aosta, Italy have been amended.

The conference will run from 1 to 3 October.

The theme of the conference is to be:

Anselmo d’Aosta: scelte storiche e motivazioni teoretiche
St Anselm: his historical choices and their theory
Saint Anselme: ses choix dans l'histoire et leur motivations théorétiques.

There will also be a celebration of Saint Anselm in Aosta on 10 October 2009, at which there will be a launch of the Italian translation of the Memorials of St Anselm.