{"id":24654,"date":"2009-05-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/anselms-view-of-sin\/"},"modified":"2009-05-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T13:00:00","slug":"anselms-view-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/anselms-view-of-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Anselm&#8217;s view of sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Suppose you were to find yourself in the presence of God and<br \/>\nsomeone were to give you the command: &#8220;Look in that direction.&#8221; And suppose<br \/>\nthat, on the contrary, God were to say: &#8220;I am absolutely unwilling for you to<br \/>\nlook.&#8221; Ask yourself in your heart what there is, among all existing things, for<br \/>\nthe sake of which you ought to take that look in violation of God&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Saint Anselm of Canterbury, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cur Deus Homo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you were to find yourself in the presence of God and someone were to give you the command: &#8220;Look in that direction.&#8221; And suppose that, on the contrary, God were to say: &#8220;I am absolutely unwilling for you to look.&#8221; Ask yourself in your heart what there is, among all existing things, for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/anselms-view-of-sin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anselm&#8217;s view of sin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1987,2039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}