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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. To be God is to be what?

2. Does God derive His existence through nothing?

3. The Monologium is ______________ than the Proslogium.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anselm begin the Proslogium?

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

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

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

5. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

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

8. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

9. What does Chapter 6 maintain?

10. What does Chapter 5 argue?

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

In the Monologium, Anselm describes and derives God's other properties.

Part 1) What are these other properties? What does Anselm have to say about them? How are they connected to Anselm's beliefs and previously-discussed points?

Part 2) Why was deriving God's existence an important first property to derive? Was Anselm successful? Why or why not?

Part 3) What are two questions you would like to ask about Anselm's deriving of God's properties? How might he answer you? Use the text to support your response.

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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