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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 thirty-six explains that God creates and knows His creation in what kind of manner?

2. God exists in every place and time. Can he also exist in neither any place nor any time?

3. Chapters twenty-five through twenty-nine discuss the fact that God is an unchanging ____________.

4. This _________ contains all ideals; this being is God.

5. Why can we as humans not win back our salvation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 3 of the Proslogium make?

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

4. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

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

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

7. What does Anselm say about the two types of conceivability?

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

9. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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