Question

Gilles Quispel (“KHILL-iss QUISS-pull”) convinced this man’s namesake institute to purchase Codex I (“one”) of the Nag Hammadi library, which is now named for him. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this psychoanalyst and author of a Gnostic set of Seven Sermons to the Dead. He interpreted gnostic mythology with his psychological theory of archetypes.
ANSWER: Carl Jung (“yung”) [or Carl Gustav Jung; accept Jung Codex; accept C. G. Jung Institute]
[10m] The history of the Nag Hammadi codices is recounted in The Gnostic Gospels, a book by this Princeton religion scholar. She also wrote The Origin of Satan and Why Religion?
ANSWER: Elaine Pagels [or Elaine Hiesey]
[10h] This German-American political philosopher drew on Jonas’s reading of Gnosticism as rooted in alienation in his book The New Science of Politics. His critique of totalizing political ideology inspired William F. Buckley’s paraphrase “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” (“ESS-kuh-tawn”).
ANSWER: Eric Voegelin [or Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2012.5095%15%15%

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Chicago AHouston A10101030
Chicago BVirginia A100010
Claremont AStanford A100010
South Carolina AColumbia B100010
Georgia Tech BCornell B100010
Illinois AMIT A100010
Indiana AFlorida A1010020
Johns Hopkins AImperial A100010
Vanderbilt AMaryland A100010
Brown AMinnesota B100010
Northwestern ANYU A1001020
Harvard APenn A10101030
Columbia ARutgers B100010
Toronto APurdue A100010
North Carolina AUC Berkeley A100010
Yale AUC Berkeley B100010
McGill ATexas A100010
Cornell AIowa State A0000
Florida BGeorgia Tech A100010
Penn State AChicago C100010