Anselm v Thomas

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I’ve always been fascinated with St. Anselm’s ontological arguments. But St. Thomas Aquinas argued that any a priori argument will fail because we don’t and can’t know God’s what God is. How then can we deduce God’s existence from an idea of God which inevitably won’t capture his essence? Aquinas says that we can demonstrate God’s existence, but not from the idea of God, only from his effects in the world.

What do y’all think? And if we accept the Angelic Doctor’s judgement on this, what use is Anselm’s argument?
 
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