Canterbury
England
Canterbury, a city in Kent in southeast England, was the Roman town of Durovernum Cantiacorum. In 597 Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, became its first archbishop, and Canterbury has since been the primatial see of the English church; its archbishops have included Anselm and, during the Reformation, Thomas Cranmer. The murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in the cathedral in 1170 made it a major pilgrimage destination and the goal of the pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The cathedral is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the King's School, often called the oldest secondary school in the United Kingdom, counts the writer on Zen and Buddhism Alan Watts among its pupils.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
- 1109
Anselm's Cur Deus Homo
- 1109
Monologium
- 1109
Proslogium
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Canterbury. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- The Holy Trinity27 passages
- Divine Simplicity24 passages
- Satisfaction Theory (Atonement)20 passages
- Aseity (Self-Existence of God)15 passages
- Logos Christology15 passages
- The Incarnation15 passages
- Creation Out of Nothing14 passages
- Divine Attributes14 passages
- Eternal Generation of the Son13 passages
- Divine Eternity12 passages
- The Passion of Christ11 passages
- Consubstantiality (Homoousios)11 passages