Online Texts: St Anselm, Proslogium
St Anselm’s Proslogium is best known as the source of the ontological argument for God’s existence. The argument is first stated in Chapter II, and then further developed in Chapter III.
The Proslogium also contains Anselm’s clarifications of some problematic points of theology, including divine omnipotence (Chapter VII), impassibility (Chapter VIII), and justice (Chapters IX-XI).
The penultimate chapter is a meditation on the great joys of heaven (Chapter XXV), and how they will be multiplied by one’s knowledge that a multitude of others, each of whom one will love as perfectly as oneself, are also undergoing these joys, which are also being multiplied in this way.