Question
This thinker’s trilemma declares that Jesus is divine, because otherwise he would be evil or insane. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Christian apologist who used Aslan as a Christ figure in his Chronicles of Narnia.
ANSWER: Clive Staples Lewis
[10h] Lewis edited the chapter “The Self-Contradiction of the Naturalist” in his book Miracles after a debate with this thinker. This author of “Mr. Truman’s Degree” coined the term “consequentialism.”
ANSWER: G. E. M. Anscombe [or Elizabeth Anscombe or Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe]
[10m] In Miracles, Lewis declared “rational thought cannot be [this word],” leading Anscombe to criticize his usage of it. This word describes syllogisms such that if all its premises were made true, then its conclusion must also be true.
ANSWER: valid [reject “sound”]
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