Anselm of Canterbury and the Feudal Logic of Salvation: A Critical Analysis of Satisfaction Theory, Divine Justice, and Biblical Soteriology within the Architecture of the Promise-Plan of God

August 12, 2026

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(2007). Anselm’s satisfaction model marked a decisive shift in Western soteriology, replacing Eastern patristic emphases on ransom and ontological recapitulation with a legal framework shaped by the feudal order. Seeking to answer rational objections from Jewish and Muslim interlocutors through independent philosophical reasoning (

What This Study Explores

Promise-Plan Theology • Biblical Justice

Scripture Connections

Genesis 3:15; Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36; Romans 11; Romans 11:28–29; Genesis 12; Romans 3:21–26; Genesis 3

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