Anselm of Canterbury was a theologian and philosopher from the 11th and 12th centuries who came up with a rather ingenious argument for the existence of God, which is usually called the ontological ...

Every year, I teach the classic theistic arguments in my philosophy of religion class. We start with the “ontological” argument in Anselm’s Proslogion. Steeped as it is in monastic and biblical prayer ...

The current spate of atheist, antitheist and antireligious books has made me ask myself whether I ought to be working, strictly pro bono, for the defense. Fortunately there are a host of reasonable ...

Now, it is logically impossible for there to exist nothing but contingent beings. As the great Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) noted back in the 13 th century, whatever depends upon another for its ...

The Church celebrates the feast of St. Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109) every year on April 21. Why is an 11th-century man important to us? Three reasons: He fought for the independence and reform ...

This essay examines anew the conflicting positions of St. Anselm and Kant regarding the possibility of proving God's existence by the technique of the Ontological Argument. It is intended (a) to do ...

The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

In an age when atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are loudly challenging the existence of God, former Oxford University Templeton scholar Overman resurrects the ...