Cur Deus Homo? (Why God Became Man)
Author: last_name: Anselm of Canterbury
Language: English
Year: 1886

Begun in England “in great tribulation of heart,” finished in the serene atmosphere and restful solitude of Schiavi, it is unquestionably, from a literary point of view, Anselm’s masterpiece, and even at the present day can be read with pleasure by those least versed in the mysteries of Catholic theology.  <br><br>Cur Deus Homo? such is its title; but its scope is not, as might be inferred, the determination of the final cause of the Incarnation.  Anselm seeks in this treatise to vindicate its p