As I read Anselm, I was impressed at how effective his method was. He even explains that the dialogue technique is "clearer to many (especially to slower) minds, and so more acceptable." The question and answer method, as we have seen so much of in philosophical works, really allows the breakdown of the Christian faith to be much more detailed and actually intimate. The fact that the two people are communicating with one another going back and forth on the ins and outs of the faith makes the entire subject more approachable to an outsider.
I just like the way the writer went about it. He takes on the unbelievers who "scoff at Christian simplicity" and call it "absurd" using a great apologetic, dialectic method, breaking down the belief subject by subject by means of simple question and answer. He uses the simple to explain the deeper truths.
P.S. Commented on Matt's post.
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