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Ian Logan's impressive study of what has become known as Anselm's 'ontological argument' found in the Proslogion covers the philosophical and historical ground in an imaginative and scholarly fashion. Convinced that Anselm's oft referred to argument has been confused and mislabelled, Logan begins with a fresh translation and exhaustive commentary on the Latin text. Prior to his translation, Logan considers what he refers to as the 'pre-text' origins of Anselm's philosophical ruminations based, interestingly enough, in Boethius' discussion of Aristotelian dialectic and Augustine's analysis of the human mind as ' imago dei'. Logan defends what he takes to be the definitive account of Anselm's argument. He then traces this argument majestically and in a workmanlike fashion through medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy of religion. He argues that too often what a...