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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. Chapter five argues that this being must exist through what?

2. The _______________ of dignity and existence of all things comes in degrees.

3. To be God is to be what?

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

5. Humans were created primarily to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

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

4. What challenge is raised in Chapter 16 of the Monologium?

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

6. What does Chapter 6 maintain?

7. What does Anselm say about the essence of both Father and Son?

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

9. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

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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