Hello, welcome to Theology Podcast. This is C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor, and I serve a church right outside Portland, Oregon. I've written some books, and I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine. But it's not my day today. So I'm going to kick it over to Glenn, and then we'll get to Tom because it's Tom's day. Glenn.

I'm Glenn Sunshine. I'm Glenn Sonschein.

I'm a retired history professor, senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

I work for Reflections Ministries, and I've got my own ministry as well,

Every Square Anch Ministries at Eastquare Anch.org.

Great.

Okay, Tom, introduce yourself and then take us into a conversation about Anselm.

Yes, Anselm.

I'm Tom Price. I'm a theologian and Christian ethicist.

I teach both at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary.

I also teach a bit of philosophy.

And so that convergence between theology and philosophy,

I think, makes today's figure an interesting one. I just did also a podcast with some friends on this.

It was their picking of Anselm, so I can't say it was spawned by me. But nevertheless, it's interesting enough to keep the conversation going.

So I think that our audience would enjoy a lot of what Anselm has done and contributed,

just as both a source of information that has shaped the West in particular,

theologically, but also as someone controversial now and even in the West.

So maybe that's where we begin.

So Anselm of Canterbury, contributions, criticisms.

Maybe that's a good way into it.

We're dealing with an 11th century figure,

and we're dealing with 11th century figure that has sort of interesting life to get going with.

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