Il primo dei moderni? Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar et Marie-Dominique Chenu sul posto di Anselmo nella storia della teologia

The figure of Anselm of Canterbury is a veritable crossroad in the theological debate at the mid of the Twentieth Century. Within the Catholic milieu, particularly the French-speaking one, the understanding of the historical relevance of the archbishop of Canterbury and his theological account became essential to define the features of the development of Theology in the Late Middle Ages and throughout Modern Age. More in detail, Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar and Marie-Dominique Chenu provided three different interpretations of Anselm’s historical legacy. While Lubac initially considered the author of the Proslogion as the break-point between the “mystical” theology and the “dialectic” theology, Congar and Chenu stressed the more complex palace of Anselm within the late Eleventh and Early Twelfth-Century theological debate.