Anselm of Canterbury

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Anselm of Canterbury is written by Sister Benedicta Ward SLG and published by SLG Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0728303337 (ISBN 10) and 9780728303331 (ISBN 13).

For those who study St Anselm, his prayers provide an intimate personal introduction to his thinking and his spirituality. For Anselm, who never considered himself a teacher of prayer, his prayers were simply personal devotions that he occasionally shared with others to encourage them to develop their own devotional style. Anselm would probably have been surprised to discover not only how widely his words were disseminated, but also the ways in which their translation and interpretation changed over the centuries. This brief study, by one of the leading scholars of early monastic life and thought, examines Anselm’s prayers as models and inspiration for mystics, saints and writers up to the present day.