Round 11: 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 of this process occurring to the Qur’an (10[1])while he was being tortured during the Mihna. To explain how this process occurs involuntarily through the First Cause, al-Farabi borrowed the Greek concept of emanation. Theologians of Islam and Christianity both debated whether this process occurred ex nihilo (10[1])through the unmoved mover, (10[1])contradicting (10[1])the Greek dictum “nothing comes from nothing.” For 10 points, medieval theologians sought to reconcile Aristotle with the account of what process at the start of the Book of Genesis? ■END■

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