Bringing a Christmas tree into your home or placing a historic stone at the corner of a new building is an example of
a. how the relationship to the divine in nature persists in contemporary society.
b. rites.
c. superstition.
d. how humans persist in performing useless rituals.
a
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.What is the correct symbolic representation of this argument? "If Dr. Landerberg is a popular professor, then he cares about his students
But he cares about his students if and only if both he empathizes with their problems and delivers good lectures. Thus, either Dr. Landerberg cares about his students or both he empathizes with their problems and delivers good lectures." A) L ? C, C ? (E ? D) .•. C v (E ? D) B) (L C) v (E ? I) .•. C v (E ? L) C) L ? C .•. C v (E ? L)
By the end of the sixth century C.E., this religion had gained a firm foothold in Japan
a. Hinduism b. Theravada Buddhism c. Mahayana Buddhism d. Sikhism
Concerning God’s relationship to history, Augustine claims
a. God works in history, but his purposes can be frustrated by human choices. b. God is concerned only with the eternal destiny of human souls and not with the events in history. c. God has total, complete control over every event in history. d. historical events are entirely the result of human choices to which God’s responds if he deems it necessary.