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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. Can multiple persons incarnate as one person?

2. Can One can infer the existence of X in reality from its existence in the understanding?

3. Can one merely believe?

4. When the soul loves God, He is blessed and God does what?

5. Who can be perfectly good and make up an infinite debt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must humans be saved?

2. What does Anselm say about Satan and the Fallen Angels?

3. What is known about each human soul?

4. What can be known about the Trinity?

5. How will souls be rewarded?

6. Why is the sacrifice of the God-man so important?

7. In what should we believe?

8. How is the Greatest Conceivable Island compared to God?

9. How does Gaunilo use the greatest conceivable island?

10. What do Chapters 6 and 7 argue?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

St. Anselm defines God as the being "than which nothing greater can be conceived."

Part 1) How does he support this definition? Could there be other, better, definitions of God? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this definition support Anselm's other beliefs and claims?

Part 3) What is your own definition of God? How have you come to this definition? What might Anselm think of your definition? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Anselm disputes Gaunilo's island example.

Part 1) What is Gaunilo's island example? Why does Anselm dispute it?

Part 2) Do you agree with Anselm or Gaunilo regarding the "lost island?" Why?

Part 3) What is the connection between Anselm's beliefs about Gaunilo's "lost island" and one's ability to conceive?

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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