ABSTRACT
Anselm of Canterbury is concerned to defend human moral responsibility which is robust enough to ground praise and blame and, most importantly, to allow us to be self-creators such that we can have some say in what sort of people we become. This leads him to propose a systematic and well-developed libertarian analysis of free will. It is sometimes said among contemporary philosophers of religion that the libertarian theist must choose between Molinism and open theism. The chapter outlines Anselm's libertarian theory, explains how God knows future free choices, and explores a number of criticisms posed by open theists. It argues that, contrary to the views of some open theists, Anselm's theory of free will offers us plenty of freedom—as much freedom as anyone should want. The chapter reviews a series of problems which open theists have raised against the Anselmian approach.
