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St Anselm And Cosmological Analysis

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As the first half of my first year in law school is about to end, I reassessed what I have learned throughout the semester. St. Anselm and St. Thomas had two different approaches in proving God’s existence. St. Anselm had the ontological approach while St. Thomas had the cosmological one. A cosmological approach meant to prove God’s existence using the physical material universe. St. Anselm makes God the addressee in his proslogion. His work was a prayer addressed to God. According to St. Anselm, “we have already received faith”. But there has to be a point where faith has to make sense. We must understand what faith is. In attempting to understand our faith, there is an attempt to rationally prove God. For Anselm, God is something than which
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