The horrors of two world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals have also stimulated a late twentieth-century religious revival exemplified in the works of Karl Barth, who has argued
A) that the Bible is the literal word of God and that salvation and consolation comes from accepting that "truth."
B) that the Bible, although not inherently true, still gives the best instruction for moral behavior.
C) that the sinful and imperfect nature of humans means that they can know religious truth not through reason but only through the grace of God.
D) that the mystery religions of Asia and the Middle East give humans a more transcendent sense of the divine and should come to replace Christian bigotry.
E) that a diversity of religious beliefs, including such "New Age" practices as witchcraft, the worship of healing rock crystals, and devotion to Gaia the Earth Mother, is a healthy sign of a new spiritualism in Western civilization.
C
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a. There were many more choices for religious practice. b. Prosperity nurtured religion by providing relief from materialism. c. People wanted an avenue to give back in gratitude for their good fortune. d. People felt a need to protect their moral fortitude in the face of capitalism.
In “chattel” slavery, the slave is, in legal terms:
a. Communally owned by an enslaving state. b. Temporarily contracted to work as a slave. c. An item of moveable personal property. d. Assigned only to agricultural labor.
The Portuguese squandered their New World wealth mainly by
a. Lending it to the Ottoman sultan b. Building overly grand churches and monasteries c. Creating a large military d. Financing a local textile industry e. Annexing Angola
In a _______ group, the members are very similar to one another
A) homogeneous B) heterogeneous C) family D) cohesive