안셀무스의 『프로슬로기온』에 나타난 교리담론과 기도담론의 변증법

Abstract

The Purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze the dialectic of prayer discourse and doctrinal discourse within Anselms Proslogion. As a matter of fact, these different kinds of discourse have not been dealt with together in the sense that only doctrinal and philosophical discourses of Proslogion II-IV were the focus of limelight in the academic realm. From the perspective of Anselms life as a monk in Bec, however, we need to analyze doctrinal and philosophical discourses within the Proslogion in a necessary relationship with prayer discourse since he wrote the Proslogion within the context of monastic life, in which prayer discourse and doctrinal discourse were not systematically separated yet. Furthermore, the prayer discourses especially in Proslogion I, the end of IV, XIV, and XXIV showed that doctrinal discourses within the Proslogion were sublated to a higher level through these prayer discourses. Thus, in order to interpret the Proslogion properly, we need to seriously consider the dialectic of prayer discourse and doctrinal discourse in the future studies. This insight from the analysis of the Proslogion urges us to reconsider the way of dealing with religious classical texts in two respects. First, we need to develop a holistic approach which includes their practical and theoretical aspects. Second, we need to find a meaningful message from these texts in order to enlighten the barren modern minds.