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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. God has how many ultimate descriptions?

2. All things live through whom?

3. God expresses Himself through a "____________ Word."

4. Chapter seventeen reiterates what about God?

5. Chapter eight explains how God can be compassionate but also lack what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 15 argue?

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

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

5. What do Chapters 1 through 6 describe?

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

7. What do Chapters 3 and 4 argue?

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

9. What does Chapter 3 of the Proslogium make?

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

Anselm explains how Christ was free to sin but was sinless and died and suffered happily.

Part 1) How and why was he free to sin? Why did he not sin? What does this reveal about sin?

Part 2) Are humans able to be sinless and die happily? Why or why not? How different would the world be if this occurred in man today?

Part 3) Is sin a choice? Can sin be avoided? How much control does one have over his or her actions and emotions?

Essay Topic 2

God exists necessarily.

Part 1) What does Anselm mean by this? How does this support Anselm's belief in one God?

Part 2) How does this aspect of God make him, in a sense, unapproachable? Is this good or bad? Why?

Part 3) How is God's existence also in need of unity? Why?

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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