ABSTRACT
Anselm has contributed a number of important milestones to the progress of Western thought. He is most famous for his "single, simple" Proslogion argument to prove the existence of God. Anselm goes one step beyond what most of the Christian philosophers of the Middle Ages would allow and argues that one can show through reason given certain factual and methodological assumptions that God had to become incarnate. The standard interpretation given by the Church assumes the existence of the Devil and his minions, and it is probably the case that Anselm would not find any argument that his own reason could adduce to be strong enough to justify rejecting the teaching of the Church. Given Anselm's chain of reasoning a chain with which reasonable Christians today may agree-belief in angels and devils is sensible. The Devil tempts and torments mankind not out of any sense of justice or commitment to justice, but purely out of malice.
