We introduce Anselm and his version of the ontological argument for God’s existence relatively early in our junior Bible class.  Sometimes it clicks, sometimes it doesn’t; we consider it as much because it was the first of its kind as much as anything else.

I mention that because Richard Beck recently posted a passage, really a prayer, from Anselm’s Proslogion.  It’s a beautiful passage, very much like an Old Testament psalm.  It reads like some of Augustine’s writings in Confessions, wonderfully holding together apparent contradictions in order to prove a greater, full point.  You can find the longer piece here, but here’s the closing snippet: