John of Patmos, at the time he was writing (most scholars date Revelation around 95 or 96 CE), regarded Rome as
A. a new Jerusalem.
B. a new Babylon.
C. the future site of the new heaven and earth.
D. the future site of Armageddon.
B. a new Babylon.
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Augustine did not reject
A) Stoicism B) Epicureanism C) Christianity D) Platonism
According to Kuhn, scientific revolutions are
A) achievements accepted by the scientific community which are the foundation for its practices. B) the guidelines and theories, methods, and standards of a certain scientific field. C) political upheavals which replace one set of governing institutions with another. D) non-cumulative developmental episodes in which one paradigm is replaced by an incommensurable new one.
In the context of the development of Sikhism, who among the following gurus inaugurated a special military order for men, called the Khalsa, and devised a ceremony of initiation, called the baptism of the sword?
A. Guru Tegh Bahadur B. Guru Gobind Singh C. Guru Har Rai D. Guru Harkishan
Concerning the nature of facts and values, Dewey argues that
a. facts refer to the physical world and values refer to a world beyond the senses. b. facts are objective while values are merely subjective preferences. c. the two cannot be separated. d. facts and values are both a matter of individual, subjective opinion.