RLG101H5 Study Guide - Tehom, Mircea Eliade, Max Müller
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Make kerry ask about sin and #11 and # 5: f. max muller. Notes great german scholar, and a comparative linguistic, that learned every other language, to study other religions in 1848 he taught european language and literature at oxford university. Phenomenological approach: 1928-1932 studied indian philosophy under s. n dasgupta, attempted a new interpretation of myths and symbols of archaic and oriental religions, 1956 brought together linguistical analysis; of texts, anthropological and sociological studies, wilfred c. smith. Religion is about people, and people change over time. Not material cause (spider web is the material cause of the web) God came: page 5: god- elohim is plural, 1st caused, efficient cause, not material cause[god creates], created the cosmos out of nothing-by his word. His name in christianity is trinity, the father, the son, and the holy spirit, in islam its allah. 2: the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the.
