Question

This thinker and Joseph Goebbels are the main examples of “bad morality” in Jonathan Bennett’s “The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn.” This thinker’s example of light rays bouncing off a mirror inspired Jaegwon Kim to choose him as the namesake of a dictum holding that “vertical determination excludes horizontal causation.” This thinker attacked Arminian “self-determination” in a 1754 treatise, prompting Samuel Johnson to quip that “all theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.” The SEP entry for this author of (*) Freedom of the Will declares him America’s most important philosophical theologian (-5[1])for works (-5[1])like Religious Affections. The Old Lights opposed this (10[1])thinker, who claimed that (-5[1])humans offend God (10[1])worse than (10[1])“ever a stubborn rebel did his prince” as he holds us like a “loathsome insect (10[6])over (10[1])the (10[1])fire.” For 10 points, name this author (10[1])of the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Jonathan Edwards [accept Edwards’s Dictum]
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Summary

2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y15100%0%20%129.20

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HartPunished "Venom" BHSUThe Dyatlov Passement incident94-5
Caleb KendrickWe Need New NamesA Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence96-5
Matt WeinerSAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUAREwhen you look this good, you don’t have to know anything10410
Anuttam Ramjiit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brownLMM's LLM MLM108-5
Matt BollingerBHSU BI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)11110
Mike CheyneThe Oldest Men in the WorldCharlotte's Moderately Successful Team11310
Iain CarpenterAre You There, Chat? It's Me, MargaretAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH12810
Ned TagtmeierBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boyvar merchants12810
Natan HoltzmanLisan al-QuibGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer12810
Charles HangLes MissourablesMindgoblin of Little Hobbes12810
Henry AtkinsThe Empire Bikes Backsticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone12810
Isaac Kirk-DavidoffFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!The Jeam Team12810
Robert WangNJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago12910
John MarvinThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to seeRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A13010
Jason ChenggenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yetNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)13710
Eric MukherjeeLMM's LLM MLMit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown14810
Ryan RosenbergA Nervy Liberal Nanny HenceWe Need New Names14910
William GoldenThe Dyatlov Passement incidentPunished "Venom" BHSU14910