Dcerning Hearts.com presents

The Doctors of the Church, the Chairs of Wisdom, with Dr. Matthew Bunsen.

Dr. Bunsen serves as the faculty chair of the Catholic Distance University.

He is also a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

He is the author or co-author of over 45 books, including the Pope Encyclopedia,

the Encyclopedia of Catholic History, the Encyclopedia of Saints, the Encyclopedia of U.S. Catholic History, and Pope Francis.

Dr. Bunsen serves as a senior contributor for EWTN.

The Doctors of the Church, The Charism of Wisdom, with Dr. Matthew Bunsen.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

Dr. Bunsen, thank you for joining me.

Wonderful to be with you, Chris. We are now fully into the Middle Ages with the doctors of the church, and we're actually talking about one of my favorite doctors today.

The Father of Scholasticism?

Indeed, Saint Anselm of Canterbury, also of course known as Anselm of Eosta and also Anselm of Beck.

And I mention those three different titles because it gives us a helpful introduction

to a man who not only was very well traveled, but who has been claimed by a number of different

traditions and places. And well, he should. He was born around 1033 in Eosteosta and what was called the kingdom of Burgundy at the time

and died across the Atlantic in Canterbury in England. We honor him for a variety of different

reasons. He was a Benedictine monk. He was a bishop, of course Archbishop of Canterbury. He's honored as so-called founder or father of scholasticism that we can talk about.

He's had a major influence in shaping the theology of certainly the Western Church.

He helped to establish a wonderful argument called the ontological argument for the existence of God.

He examined our Lord, especially what we think of when we give atonement.

He was a great defender of the rights of the church at a time of what was called the great

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