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Originally Posted by A264172
But if the equality and inherant value of man is a gift from god to ALL his children (i.e. anyone can be saved and inherit the kingdom), isn't that different from the notion that of members of the state that occupy the land, or thoes in whom the academy has instilled rational abilitys or descendents of some such line are co-equal in a way that we all share the burden of our collective future as co-authors blah blah roughly.
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I think it's an open question as to whether God gives the same gift to all his children. The idea of predestination had been around a long time, at least since Augustine. So some people are predestined to heaven and some to hell. I don't see anything in Anselm which changes that idea. Sinners still can't be rational from Anselm's point of view, as far as I can see.
It's on my list of books to read, but it may take a while to get to it.