View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter sixteen raises a challenge: since God is equivalent to all his properties, can't we understand God when we understand these properties? How does Anselm respond?

2. We cannot even do what without His help?

3. Why is the answer to number 33 this type of goodness?

4. What is the only absolutely true thing that can be said of God?

5. In chapter seven, Anselm argues that all beings other than God derive their nature from whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is God a substance? What does Anselm have to say about God as a substance?

3. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

4. How and why does God lack feelings of emotions? Of what else is he also incapable?

5. What does Chapter 6 maintain?

6. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

8. What does Chapter 5 argue?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anselm concludes that he has shown how the core ideas of the Old and New Testaments are true.

Part 1) Give four ways that Anselm has shown the Bible to be true.

Part 2) Could Anselm be disputed? Why or why not? What do these core ideas and Anselm's interpretation of them reveal about the church?

Part 3) How have these core ideas influenced our culture as a whole? Is this good? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The argument in the Monologium is importantly different from the Proslogium.

Part 1) What is the argument in each of these? How are they similar? How are they different?

Part 2) Why are these differences important? What do these differences reveal about God and everything in existence?

Part 3) How is this argument meant to help mankind? How might it help you?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,157 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample