Question
Answer the following about Gerard Manley Hopkins’s interactions with philosophers of religion, for 10 points each.
[10m] Hopkins drew on this scholastic thinker’s concept of haecceity (“heck-SEE-it-ee”) when formulating his ideas of inscape and instress. This “subtle doctor” theorized that properties of God are subject to the univocity of being.
ANSWER: John Duns Scotus [or John Duns or Johannes Duns; prompt on Doctor Subtilis; reject “John Scotus Eriugena”]
[10h] Hopkins corresponded with this thinker, who told him that “the Benedictines would not have suited you” on being informed of Hopkins’s decision to become a Jesuit. This philosopher wrote Grammar of Assent, a prolonged defense of the ideas he outlined in his Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
ANSWER: Cardinal John Henry Newman
[10e] Hopkins delivered a sermon on the role of the “guardian” form of these beings in Catholicism. Scholastic philosophers were attacked for allegedly debating how many of these beings can dance on the head of a pin.
ANSWER: angels [accept guardian angels; accept archangels; accept seraphim]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| NYU A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haverford | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Vassar | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn B | Princeton B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bard A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Yale A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Yale C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |