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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. Who or what is this Word?

2. Can created substances be accurately compared to Him?

3. Chapters eighteen through twenty-four describe God's what?

4. Acquiring accidents is a process of ___________.

5. The first man, Adam, discarded a state of unity with God which was __________ to keep.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is learned about the Holy Spirit?

8. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

9. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Anselm argues that, despite the fact that we cannot truly understand the nature of the Trinity, we should believe in it.

Part 1) Why can one not truly understand the Trinity? Why should one believe in it, even though he or she does not understand it?

Part 2) Is this lack of understanding and need to believe anyway exist in other aspects of Christianity? If so, give an example. If not, why not?

Part 3) In what do you believe? Do you have complete understanding of this? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Christ's life pays God for humanity's sins.

Part 1) How does Christ's life do this? Could anyone else's life be capable of paying for humanity's sins? Why or why not?

Part 2) How important are the facts that Christ had the freedom to sin and died happily to his ability to pay God for mankind's sins? Explain.

Part 3) Why has the world not returned to its original state, as with Adam and Eve, if Christ has paid for mankind's sins?

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