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Notes
1. Part of the research for this paper was undertaken in the 1986 National Endowment for the Humanities's Summer Seminar, "The Journey Symbol in Medieval Mystical Literature," chaired by Ewart Cousins of Fordham University.
2. James A. Weisheiple, "Early Scholasticism." Encyclopedia of Religion. 1987 ed.
3. Jaroslav Pelikan, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700). Vol. 2 of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1974), p. 255.
4. Anselm, Monologium in St. Anselm: Basic Writings.

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Trans. S.N. Deane. 2d ed. LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1966, p. 35.
5. Anselm, Proslogium, Ibid., pp. 1-7.
6. Weisheiple, op. cit.
7. Anselm's mode of argumentation can be best understood in light of his Dialogue on Truth in Selections from Medieval Philosophers: Augustine to Albert the Great. Ed. and trans. Richard McKeon (New York: Scribner's, 1929), pp. 150-84. McKeon's brief introduction is also quite helpful, pp. 142-49.
8. See Vladimir Lossky, Orthodox Theology: An Introduction/ Trans. Ian and Ihita Kessarcodi-Watson (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1978), p. 13.
9. Pelikan, op. cit., p. 259.
10. John Meyendorff, Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes (New York: Fordham University Press, 1974), p. 75.
11. Symeon the New Theologian, The Discourses. Trans. C.J. deCatanzaro. "Classics of Western Spirituality" (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), p. 54.
12. Ibid., pp. 58-59.
13. Ibid., p. 184.
14. Kallistos Ware, "Eastern Christianity," Encyclopedia of Religion. 1987 ed.
15. Yves Congar, "Theology: Christian Theology," ibid.
16. See Hymn 21 in Symeon the New Theologian, Hymns of Divine Love, trans. George A. Maloney (Denville, New Jersey: Dimension, n.d.), pp. 95-96. For a good summary of the debate between Symeon and Stephen see Basil Krivocheine, St. Symeon the New Theologian: Life, Spirituality, Doctrine, trans. Anthony P. Gythiel (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1986), pp. 44-51.
17. Symeon, Hymns, pp. 98-99.
18. Krivocheine, op. cit., p. 45.