Question
This theologian's lost deathbed exposition of the Song of Solomon may be contained in the Aurora consurgens, an alchemical treatise that comments on Senior Zadith ibn Umayl's Silvery Water. For 10 points each:
[10e] Albert Magnus legendarily gave the philosopher’s stone to what student who wrote the Summa contra gentiles?
ANSWER: Thomas Aquinas [or Saint Thomas Aquino; or Thomas of Aquino; or Tommaso d'Aquino; or Doctor Angelicus; or Doctor Communis; or Doctor Univeralis; or Doctor Humanitatis; accept Thomism; prompt on Saint Thomas]
[10h] A theologian of this surname predated the Summa Theologica's question-and-answer format in his tafsir Keys to the Unseen. Abu Hatim debated and shared this surname with a possibly heretical physician, alchemist, and philosopher whose metaphysics were based on "five eternal" principles.
ANSWER: al-Razi [accept Rhazes or Rhasis; specifically, accept Abu Bakr al-Razi, Abu Hatim al-Razi, or Fakhr al-Din al-Razi]
[10m] Golden Age Islamic thought is sometimes divided into a strain of "philosophy" called falsafa, and one of "theology" denoted by this Arabic term. William Lane Craig revived an argument of this name that opens with the premise that everything that begins to exist must have a cause.
ANSWER: kalam [accept Ilm al-kalam; accept kalam cosmological argument]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 33% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 33% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 40% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |