Round 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 Aquinas held that these things, unusually, cannot be differentiated by matter, so they must each belong to a unique species. 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[1])in a treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius. Many medieval thinkers identified these things with the external intelligences that moved the spheres in Aristotle’s cosmology and considered them to be non-corporeal intellects. In the Great Chain of Being, these things are between God and humans. (10[1])A phrase mocking scholastics asks how many of these things can dance on the head of a pin. For 10 points, orders of what beings include seraphim and cherubim? ■END■

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