Forum Philosophicum

Volume 17, Issue 2, Autumn 2012

Tadeusz Grzesik
Pages 245-268

Faith and Conscience—The Surest of Arguments for the Existence of God

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.