Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. It was quite a few weeks ago that we spent some time with Anselm.

We looked at a very important date in Anselm's life. The date was 1066.

This was a definitive day in English history and it turned out

rather unknowingly to him to be a definitive day in Anselm's life. Who is Anselm?

Well he was a monk in Normandy. He was at the monastery at Beck in Normandy and when

William the Conqueror went to England and conquered England in 1066, he brought over Anselm Superior to be the Archbishop of Canterbury

and his name was Lahnfronk and when Lahnf died

he suggested that Anselm replaced him and so Anselm became the Archbishop of Canterbury,

the post he held from 1093 until his death in 1109.

This life from 1033 to 1109 is a very crucial life in the history of the Christian

tradition, a very crucial life both in the history of philosophy and the history of

theology and I thought what we needed to do was go back and spend a little bit more time with Anselm than we did previously.

He deserves it.

And what we will do is look at two books of his.

Now I've called these great little books

because they're not very long books at all.

In fact, the first book we're going to look at

is called Proslogion,

and it is less than 30 pages.

That's amazing.

This book has had a huge impact in the history of philosophy,

and it's less than 30 pages.

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