Cur Deus Homo (Summarized Edition)

Cur Deus Homo is Anselm's rigorous inquiry into why God became human, framed as a dialogue with the monk Boso. Eschewing appeal to bare authority, he articulates the satisfaction theory: sin incurs a debt no finite creature can pay, so only the God-man can restore justice and mercy. In lucid, tightly argued Latin, the treatise models early scholastic method while rooted in monastic devotion, and d...