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en-wikipedia-org-8940		Anselm of Canterbury - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	17943	2049	68	Anselm has been called "the most luminous and penetrating intellect between St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas"[111] and "the father of scholasticism",[37] Scotus Erigena having employed more mysticism in his arguments.[95] Anselm's works are considered philosophical as well as theological since they endeavor to render Christian tenets of faith, traditionally taken as a revealed truth, as a rational system.[139] Anselm also studiously analyzed the language used in his subjects, carefully distinguishing the meaning of the terms employed from the verbal forms, which he found at times wholly inadequate.[140] His worldview was broadly Neoplatonic, as it was reconciled with Christianity in the works of St Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius,[3][d] with his understanding of Aristotelian logic gathered from the works of Boethius.[142][143][37] He or the thinkers in northern France who shortly followed him—including Abelard, William of Conches, and Gilbert of Poitiers—inaugurated "one of the most brilliant periods of Western philosophy", innovating logic, semantics, ethics, metaphysics, and other areas of philosophical theology.[144]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8940.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8940.txt