Benue State University, Makurdi

A Comparison of Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas’ Approach to the Existence of God

Joseph Nietlong, PhD and Gideon Kato

Abstract

This study sets out to compare Anselm of Canterbury’s approach to the existence of God in his Proslogion,with that of Thomas Aquinas in his various proofs (the five ways) in the Summa Theologica. This exercise gives special attention to their various positions, with particular emphasis on self-evidence, or the need for, and possibility of proofs, and to the intellectual condition of the Atheist.

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