Llull’s rational proofs for God largely restated Anselmic and Thomistic arguments

Evidence

While I will not enter into the details of the supposedly rational “proofs” of Llull’s arguments, they are to a large extent conventional in content, even if couched in Llull’s idiosyncratic arboreal allegory. His arguments for the existence of God are in the tradition of Anselm of Canterbury and quite similar (in content, if not in form) to those of Llull’s contemporary Thomas Aquinas. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1315

Categorization

• XREF: The arboreal allegory resonates with the excerpt’s own framing of trees as figures — ties to ideas about trees as allegorical infrastructure already noted in the ADDENDUM essay on trees.
• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘necessary reasons’ (raons necessàries) meant demonstrative logical proofs, distinct from appeals to scriptural or church authority.