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“Enlighten the Eye of My Mind”: Anselm of Canterbury at the Limits of Imagination

For more on this event, visit: https://bit.ly/38Mv5Ei For more on the Future of the Humanities Project, visit: https://global.georgetown.edu/topics/... For FHP's YouTube Playlist: https://bit.ly/3pZ07zw April 26, 2022 | Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), the celebrated philosopher-theologian, monk, abbot, and archbishop of Canterbury, is most famous for his groundbreaking works of theological speculation. Anselm’s bold application of the tools of reason to fundamental questions of Christian faith, present throughout his authorial career, resulted in the first philosophical proof for the existence of God in the medieval Latin West. Yet Anselm also had a determined interest in the interior landscape of the human soul—his deathbed regret was that he had not lived long enough to write a book about it. While the word “imagination” (imaginatio) occurs only a handful of times in his corpus, Anselm’s works are punctuated with references to the “eye of the soul” or the “eye of the mind.” The notion that humans possess the capacity for inner perception—an interior space for visual and conceptual creativity—is central to his theological program. Dr. Rachel Cresswell’s presentation examine dAnselm’s idea of the “eye of the mind” in all its ambiguity, particularly in the powers and pitfalls of its capacity for image-creation. In rhetorically underscoring the force of the theological imagination, Anselm uses that very force to delineate its limitations, and to negotiate the far-reaches of the mind’s eye in perceiving a God who dwells in unapproachable light. Michael Scott, director of the Future of the Humanities Project, provided opening and closing remarks, and Rev. Joseph Simmons, S.J., moderated a Q&A session following the presentation. This event was sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford). It is part of a two-year-long series on the Christian Literary Imagination.