Packet 9: Tossup 10

The 1277 Paris condemnations rejected the view that these things are nowhere by substance and present only by their operation. (15[1])Thomas (15[1])Aquinas held that these things, unusually, cannot be differentiated by matter, so they must each belong to a unique species. (15[2])A mode of time named for being proper to these things is called aevum. Nine kinds of these things are placed in a (*) hierarchy (10[2])in a treatise (10[1])by Pseudo-Dionysius. (10[8]-5[1])Many (-5[1])medieval thinkers identified these things (10[1]-5[1])with the external intelligences that moved (10[1])the spheres in Aristotle’s (10[1])cosmology (-5[1])and considered them to be non-corporeal intellects. (10[1]-5[1])In the Great Chain of Being, these things (10[1])are between God (10[1])and humans. (10[7])A phrase (10[1])mocking scholastics (10[2])asks how many (10[1])of (10[1])these things (10[3])can dance on the head of (10[1])a pin. For 10 points, orders of what beings include seraphim and cherubim? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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