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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the answer to number 59 stated in the Old Testament?

2. God and His idea of Himself exist as what?

3. Men should not expect to understand Him until he has lived with his belief for how long?

4. To be God is to be what?

5. Humans were created primarily to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jesus derive existence from God? Why?

2. To what is God identical?

3. Why does Anselm say that only a fool would not believe in God?

4. Give an example showing why God must exist.

5. How does Anselm explain that God creates from nothing but that everything, in a sense, already exists?

6. What does Chapter 5 argue?

7. Can God, according to Anselm, create from nothing?

8. What does Chapter 3 of the Proslogium make?

9. How are Chapters 1 and 2 prefigure the ontological argument and also are importantly different?

10. What set of problems does Chapter 9 of the Proslogium introduced? How does Chapter 10 add to this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

St. Anselm's project of proving God's existence is a case of "faith seeking understanding."

Part 1) What is meant by this? How does St. Anselm go about seeking this understanding? Is he successful? Why or why not?

Part 2) Might these writings effectively convince a non-believer to believe, or are these writings purely for believers? Why?

Part 3) How important is understanding to having faith in something? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

God is perfectly just, yet He forgives sinners and has mercy on them.

Part 1) How does Anselm prove that God is perfectly just? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) Why does Anselm see a contradiction between being just and showing mercy? What does this reveal about him and his culture?

Part 3) How might this contradiction in God compare to gods of other cultures? How does this support Anselm's love of God?

Essay Topic 3

The expression of God consists of only one "Word."

Part 1) What does Anselm mean by this? How is this "Word" a thing, according to Anselm? How is the "Word" like "Himself?"

Part 2) How does the "Word" create the world? What is the connection between the "Word" and Jesus Christ?

Part 3) What are your thoughts on this belief regarding the "Word?" Does Anselm well-support this belief? Explain.

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