ABSTRACT
Anselm knows that he can talk about God, know God and experience God in the present, but he longs to stretch beyond the present and reach into the eschaton where a fullness of the beatific vision will be known beyond measure. Ian Davie admits that, unlike so many, Anselm's proof does not flow from the human psyche or human understanding; rather, God is the very ground of Anselm's thinking. Karl Barth goes on to argue that for Anselm the theological enterprise was not one which was aimed at leading people to faith or confirming them in their faith or even relieving them of doubt. In the Proslogion Anselm suggested that the Fool first has the concept of God in his mind, then realizes that the nature of God is such that He must exist in reality as well as in his mind, and then draws the conclusion of the existence of God.
