Gnosticism - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

These belief systems held that a malevolent demiurge (“DEM-ee-urge”) created the material world. For 10 points each:

[10e] Give this Greek-derived term for Jewish and early Christian belief systems that emphasized hidden knowledge of the divine. Early church fathers denounced them as heretical.

ANSWER: Gnosticism [or Gnostic religions]

[10m] Jesus imparts gnosis upon this apostle in a Gnostic Apocryphon named for him. Three epistles in the New Testament are named for this younger son of the fisherman Zebedee.

ANSWER: John the Apostle [or Ioannes; or Yochanan; accept Apocryphon of John]

[10h] This thinker borrowed the term pleroma, denoting full divinity, from the Apocryphon of John and contrasted it with creatura, or the divine incarnate, in the book Seven Sermons to the Dead.

ANSWER: Carl Jung

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	9	13.33	78%	33%	22%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Geodesic	Alabama	10	0	10	20
Harding	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford C	10	0	0	10
Arizona State	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Minnesota B	Minnesota C	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M B	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
Iowa A	UW A	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Iowa B	10	0	0	10
Appalachian State	Rice A	10	0	0	10
Sorbonne	UBC A	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Tennessee	MTSU	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
Binghamton	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	RIT A	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Cornell C	10	10	0	20
Maryland A (Grad)	GWU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
UNC A (Grad)	Liberty B (DII)	10	0	0	10
Liberty C (DII)	JMU B (UG)	10	10	0	20
Maryland B (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Maryland C (DII)	Duke A (UG)	10	0	0	10
JMU A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	0	0	0	0
UNC B (UG)	UNC D (DII)	10	10	10	30
Virginia B (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	0	0	0	0
Virginia A (UG)	Virginia C (UG)	10	0	10	20
Ohio State A	Michigan C	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	0	0	10
John Jay	Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Haverford	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	NYU A	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	NYU B	10	10	0	20
Penn	Vassar	10	10	0	20