Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man)

St Anselm († 1109) · Cur Deus homo · 1094-1098

English translation by James Gardiner Vose (1830–1908), Bibliotheca Sacra, Andover, 1854-1855; reprinted in St. Anselm, ed. Sidney Norton Deane, Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Original text: Migne, Patrologia Latina 158, 359-432.

Refs follow Migne's chapter numbers. In Book II the English prints Migne's chapters 18-23 as XVIII (a), XVIII (b), XIX, XX, XXI, XXII (refs 2.18-2.23); the printed English numbers are kept in the headings.

  1. pref Preface
  2. 1.1 Chapter I. The question on which the whole work rests.
  3. 2.1 Chapter I. How man was made holy by God, so as to be happy in the enjoyment of God.

Cited in the encyclopedia

Capua, Archdiocese of · Hilary of Paris · Incarnation (Σάρκωσις) · Lardito, Juan Bautista · Primacy of Jesus Christ · William of Auvergne

Read after it was written: the work's reception

The Enciclopedia Cattolica 1948–1954 cited in 6 articles

From the citations of this work in the texts on this site. More readers will be added as their texts are.

James Gardiner Vose (1830–1908), Bibliotheca Sacra, Andover, 1854-1855; reprinted in St. Anselm, ed. Sidney Norton Deane, Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Digital text: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Original text: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1854-1855 and 1903; translator died 1908. Latin: Migne, PL 158, public domain.

Save for later

Enter your email and we will send you a sign-in link. No password. What you save (articles, verses, chapters, documents) follows you to any device.