Open AccessFaith and Conscience—The Surest of Arguments for the Existence of God
Author(s) -
Tadeusz Grzesik
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2012.1702.16
Subject(s) - existence of god , conscience , philosophy , faith , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , ontological argument , focus (optics) , theology , philosophy of religion , theism , chemistry , biochemistry , physics , optics
In the first part of my paper, I shall consider how Anselm of Canterbury’s so-called ontological argument has been misapprehended by those treating it as a proof for the existence of God. In the second part, I shall focus on Chapter One of the Proslogion and on the Epistola de incarnatione Verbi to show what Anselm’s real purpose was regarding the problem of the existence of God. I shall support my view by referring also to the thought of John Henry Newman and Henri de Lubac.