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Block. Him back to another Episode

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of Five Minutes In Church History.

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On this episode, we're going to

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travel along with our friend, the

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Medieval Theologian, and so Anselm was

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born and ten, thirty three. and

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he died in a Levin, oh

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nine. Over the course of his

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lifetime, he had five significant journeys,

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and we'd love that number five

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here on Five Minutes and Church

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History. So let's go through these

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journeys together. The first journey comes

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when he is twenty three years

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old, Anselm was born in

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the town of a Oh Stir

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in the Burgundy region of Italy.

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He wanted to get to the

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monastery at Back in Normandy and

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in between his home and the

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monastery where the Op's he sets

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off as a twenty three year

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old, it takes him three years

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to travel through the Alps and

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finally arrive at Back and when

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he gets there he enters the

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monastery and comes under the mentorship

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in guidance of Lawn Frank, the

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abbot. Seven years later, after William,

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who was also from Normandy, crosses

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the English Channel, defeats the British.

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And we know I'm in history

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as William the Conqueror and he's

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established as the King of England.

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He summons Lawn Frank to come

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across the English Channel and installs

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Lawn. Frank has the Archbishop. That

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paves the way for Anselm to

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succeed lawn Frank as the Abbot

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their at back. We need to

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fast forward a little bit for

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his second journey and that's ten

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Ninety Three In ten Ninety three

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long Frank dies. in the succession

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plan of Anselm. it back worked

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out pretty well. so the idea

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was to have him com and

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succeed on Frank as Archbishop. So

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in Ten Ninety Three, Anselm

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himself crosses the English channel,

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is installed as the Archbishop

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from the Big. Inning of

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his time in that post, he

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had a rocky relationship with the

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king. By now we him had

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died and when the seconds was

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on the throne and that rocky

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relationship ended in Ten Ninety Eight.

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when William the Second exiled and

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so and so we have his

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third journey, he first set off

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for Rome. He arrives in April

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and he gets immediately involved in

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the Philly. Oh Quake controversy. This

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is that very important theological controversy

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that led to the split between

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the Church in the West and

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the Church in the East and

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had to do with the procession

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of the Holy Spirit and the

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East. The Holy Spirit preceded from

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the Father and the West stressed

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that the Holy Spirit proceeded from

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the father and the sun, and

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that expression in English and the

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son is one word in Latin

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Celia Clay Well after that controversy

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was settled, the next controversy was

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the Siege of Capua is down

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near Naples and the Sarasin forces

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and the norm and. Forces join

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together to take on the southern

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Italian states. That lasted for forty

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days and an sounds intention was

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not a stay at Rome. it

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was to get to the little

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town of Liberia, and he needed

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to wait for that siege to

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end. And then he could get

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to Liberia safely. And when it

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ended off he went. Liberia's about

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thirty five miles north of Naples,

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a picturesque, charming, stunningly beautiful town.

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And there's a monastery there. And

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Anselm wrote his text kerr

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Days Homo Wealth Things called

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with oil the second, and

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Anselm was invited back. And

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so he had to leave

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his exile and head back

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to Canterbury. That didn't last

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long and a new king

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comes along. King Henry the

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first hand. In eleven o'

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three, King Henry now exiles

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Anselm, and he's gonna spend

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another three years in exile.

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And he begins that exile with

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yet another trip. Tomorrow was years

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of fascinating thing about least two,

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especially the to exile journeys of

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and so he wrote. A while

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he was at back he rode

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his monologue he on which isn't

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as talked about as much as

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the posts loki on but there

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in the ten seventies he he

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wrote those philosophical texts in in

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the Ten A D C. He

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wasn't writing as much because he

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was busy with his administrative. Duties.

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And of course, when he goes

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over to be the Archbishop of

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Canterbury, he's even more busy with

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his duties. And it's in these

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X Files that he was able

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to write these texts that have

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been such a great gift to

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the church. Or there's Anselm and

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Is X Files and his travels

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and his books. And I'm Steve

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Nichols and thanks for joining us

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for five minutes in church.