Anselm of Laon

Anselm von Laon (also Anselme de Laon , Latinized Anselmus von Laon ; * around 1050; † July 15, 1117 ) was a Catholic theologian and early scholastic .

Life

Anselm was the son of a farmer. He studied in the Abbey of Bec and was a student of Anselm von Canterbury , then taught (from around 1090) at the Episcopal School in Laon , where he gathered many students, including above all Wilhelm von Champeaux and Petrus Abelardus . However, since his teaching only reflected the traditional doctrine and was based more on the strict interpretation of the texts than on his own deliberations, a thinker like Abelard quickly turned away from him. In particular, Anselm rejected any question that could not be clarified by authorized texts.

He refused to become a bishop on several occasions , and in his final years was only concerned with clarifying his teaching. His works, especially the Sentences and the Interlinear Glossary , which is only a meticulous list of scriptures, were soon ousted in the favor of teachers and students by those of the following generation, such as the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus . However, Anselm did much to find rules for a scholasticism that was open to argument, and not just quotations, and to shed light on the intellectual legacy on which medieval theology was based. The Sic-et-non method is said to have been cultivated not first by Abelard, but even earlier, among others by the school of Anselm von Laon.

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Anselm von Laon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 185. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Cédric Giraud: Per verba magistri. Anselme de Laon et son École au XIIe siècle. Brepols, Turnhout 2010, ISBN 978-2-503-53341-4 .

Web links

Abelard's controversy with Anselm

Individual evidence

↑ Wilhem de Vries: Abelard . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957, Sp. 5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Anselm of Laon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Anselme de Laon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic theologian and early scholastic
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1050
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1117

[1] Wilhem de Vries: Abelard . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1957, Sp. 5 .