Anselm's Four-Dimensionalist Approach To The Timelessness Of God

Question 1

Anselm took up Boethius’ ideas of a God who can “see” all moments of time at one and developed it further (known as his “?-?” approach).

Answer 1

Four-dimensionalist.

Question 2

Anselm’s view contrasts with a view known as “?”. According to presenting, only the present moment exists. Anselm’s understanding of time’s different. We humans live in a presenting way, but this isn’t how things are for God as he’s timeless.

Answer 2

Presentism.

Question 3

A four-dimensionalist view of time is that the past and future exist in the same way that the present exists. Time’s understood as the “? ?” alongside height, width and depth which all relate to space.

Answer 3

Fourth dimension.

Question 4

Anselm didn’t think that the limits of the human imagination provided any kind of evidence against the ? of God.

Answer 4

Eternity.

Question 5

We’re limited by space as well as by time. But because God’s eternal, in Anselm’s thinking, God’s unlimited by either space or time, and therefore God can be in the past, present and future all at once, just as he can be in the whole universe at once. Every time and space is “?” God, created and sustained by God. God isn’t constrained by them but’s in control of them.

Answer 5

In.

Question 6

The four-dimensionalist understanding of the eternity of God means that we have free will. God can see the free choices we make, made in the past and in the future. Anselm though God literally can see us in our pasts, presents and futures because of his ? ?

Answer 6

Eternal timelessness.

Question 7

For Boethius and Anselm, God can justifiably judge us, and we can be held morally ? for our actions, which we choose freely and which God can see at all times.

Answer 7

Responsible.