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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. We should believe in God by doing what?

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

3. What compels God to complete His original plan?

4. Why is this island greater than an island with all of the Island's properties save the answer to number 158?

5. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anselm outline to prepare the reader for Book II?

2. What does Gaunilo submit?

3. How does Gaunilo use the greatest conceivable island?

4. What do Chapters 3 through 8 discuss?

5. Why is Anselm's task of defending the Christian faith not complete?

6. Was the God-man born with original sin? How does this affect Him?

7. On Gaunilo's view, why does the argument fail?

8. What can be known about the Trinity?

9. What is the rational mind?

10. What happens when the soul loves God? What happens when a soul hates God?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Man was initially made holy so that he could enjoy God.

Part 1) What else could not take place if man had remained sinless? Why? Is it possible for a man to be born and to remain sinless? Why or why not?

Part 2) What does Anselm say about God's original plan? Does he still continue along this plan? Why or why not? How does Jesus play into this original plan?

Part 3) What is the connection between this discussion of God's original plan the end of the plan, and the Trinity? What does all this reveal and clarify about the Christian faith?

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