Cur Deus Homo (Annotated)

In Cur Deus Homo ("Why God Became Man"), Saint Anselm offers one of the Middle Ages' most influential accounts of the Incarnation and Atonement. Cast as a rigorous dialogue between teacher and pupil, the work asks why redemption required the God-man rather than mere divine pardon. Its style is lucid, dialectical, and austere, characteristic of early scholastic reasoning: scriptural faith is assume...