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This man was the subject of two biographies by R.W. Southern, whose The Making of the Middle Ages argues that he was the origin of a genre of "ardent and e㻈fusive self-disclosure." At the Council of Bari, this man compared the relationship of the Father to the Son to that of man to himself through memory, an argument he published in On the Procession of the Holy Spirit. In a philosophical dialogue against an opponent named Boso, this man argues that the cruci㻈xion was necessary not as a "ransom," but as "satisfaction" for an a㻈front to God. This author of Cur Deus Homo used the motto "faith seeking understanding" and famously wrote, "I believe so that I may understand." This one-time Abbot of Bec invoked the "fool of the Psalms" in an argument that Gaunilo (gow-NIL-oh) responded to by postulating an imaginary island. In his Proslogion, this scholar began an argument with the claim that one can imagine the existence of the greatest possible conceivable being. For 10 points, name this Archbishop of Canterbury who formulated the ontological argument for the existence of God.
This man was the subject of two biographies by R.W. Southern, whose The Making of the Middle Ages argues that he was the origin of a genre of "ardent and e㻈fusive self-disclosure."
St. Anselm of Canterbury