Packet M: Tossup 14

Proofs for this process from finitude, composition, accidents, and time are outlined by Saadia Gaon (“ga-OWN”) at the beginning of his Amânât. To explain this process occurring continuously and gradually, Avicenna rendered a Greek term as fayḍ. According to tradition, (10[1])Ahmad ibn Hanbal still denied Mu’tazil theories (10[1])of this process (10[1])occurring to the Qur’an (10[4])while he was being tortured (10[3])during (10[1])the Mihna. To explain how this process occurs involuntarily through the First Cause, (10[1])al-Farabi (10[1])borrowed the Greek concept of emanation. Theologians of Islam (10[1])and Christianity both debated whether this process occurred ex (-5[1])nihilo (10[10]-5[1])through (10[1])the unmoved (10[2])mover, (10[6])contradicting (10[2])the Greek dictum “nothing comes from nothing.” (10[1])For (10[2])10 points, (10[2])medieval theologians (10[1])sought to reconcile Aristotle with the account of what process at the start of the (10[1])Book (10[1])of (10[1])Genesis? ■END■ (10[5])

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