Anselmicadj.

1853 Presbyterian Q. Rev. Sept. 269 On one point the Anselmic theory received an important development from the labors of Thomas Aquinas.

1872 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. I. ii. 379 The character of the Anselmic philosophy [Ger. des Anselmschen Philosophirens] was not that of the whole period.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 106/3 The objective or Anselmic theory, sometimes called the Satisfaction Theory.

1939 J. Baillie Our Knowl. of God iv. 151 Something that closely resembled the Anselmic proof which St. Thomas had condemned.

2002 Jrnl. Relig. 82 472 Niebuhr's theology of the cross combined elements of the Anselmic idea of atonement as a dialectic of divine justice and divine mercy with an overriding Abelardian doctrine of the spiritual effect of Christ's sacrifice.