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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. God and His idea of Himself exist as what?

2. We can only ascribe certain properties to God within what?

3. Acquiring accidents is a process of ___________.

4. As what does the Word exist?

5. What is the only method of creating the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

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

4. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

5. What does Chapter 5 argue?

6. What does Anselm say about existence and the creation of beings?

7. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said about God? What might this mean?

8. What does Anselm say about God's properties as Father and Son?

9. What does Chapter 6 maintain?

10. How is Chapter 4 connected to Chapters 1 and 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anselm denies it is a fallacy to deduce the existence of a being in reality to one that exists in the understanding.

Part 1) Do you agree with him? Why or why not? How does he support his belief? Are his points valid? Why or why not?

Part 2) What does this belief reveal about Anselm's beliefs about man's abilities to conceive and understand?

Part 3) Is God, according to Anselm, greater than what one can conceive? Why or why not? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

God exists necessarily.

Part 1) What does Anselm mean by this? How does this support Anselm's belief in one God?

Part 2) How does this aspect of God make him, in a sense, unapproachable? Is this good or bad? Why?

Part 3) How is God's existence also in need of unity? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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