Holy rhetoric: Anselm’s prayers and the phenomenology of divine compassion

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 81 (5):447-465 (2020)
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In this essay, I examine Anselm’s ‘Prayers and Meditations’ as rhetorical prayers. I consider the basic structure of prayer as address to the Divine. For Anselm, this address is rhetorically struct...

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