I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand (fides quaerens intellectum). for this I believe-that unless I believe, I should not understand.
Anselm (1033-1109), Proslogium
Anselm is the most important Christian theologian in the West between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. His two great accomplishments are his Proslogium (in which he undertakes to show that Reason requires that men should believe in God), and his Cur Deus Homo? (in which he undertakes to show that Divine Love responding to human rebelliousness requires that God should become a man).
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