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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. All beings others than God exist through whom?

2. Anselm argues that the argument in number 47 is what?

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

4. Chapters eighteen through twenty-four describe God's what?

5. God's idea of Himself is equivalent to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Word?" How does Anselm come to explain this?

2. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

4. How is God a substance and also transcends substance?

5. What does Anselm say in Chapter 1?

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

7. What does Chapter 3 of the Proslogium make?

8. What does Chapter 5 argue?

9. What does Anselm say about God's eternality and omnipresence?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anselm argues that, despite the fact that we cannot truly understand the nature of the Trinity, we should believe in it.

Part 1) Why can one not truly understand the Trinity? Why should one believe in it, even though he or she does not understand it?

Part 2) Is this lack of understanding and need to believe anyway exist in other aspects of Christianity? If so, give an example. If not, why not?

Part 3) In what do you believe? Do you have complete understanding of this? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Anselm explains how Christ was free to sin but was sinless and died and suffered happily.

Part 1) How and why was he free to sin? Why did he not sin? What does this reveal about sin?

Part 2) Are humans able to be sinless and die happily? Why or why not? How different would the world be if this occurred in man today?

Part 3) Is sin a choice? Can sin be avoided? How much control does one have over his or her actions and emotions?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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