Cur Deus Homo? Why God Became Man
Anselm’s dialogue with the monk Boso on why God became man and how Christ’s death redeems us: the doctrine of satisfaction, in two books. The Latin is the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 158, 1853), from a machine-corrected OCR; the English is Sidney Norton Deane’s 1903 translation, which follows the Latin chapter for chapter (Deane splits Book II chapter XVIII in two, so from there his numbers run one behind the Latin).
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Source: The complete text with its chapter divisions and PL chapter summaries. PL page breaks, the column numbers and the apparatus of alternative chapter numbers (al.) are dropped; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed. Dialogue turns are set as separate paragraphs. The OCR carries a few residual slips. · The Cur Deus Homo only (Deane’s introduction, Gaunilo’s pleading and Anselm’s reply are not imported). Chapter titles are Deane’s chapter headings; translator’s notes are kept as footnotes.