Week 7 Mid Term Due

An updated syllabus for Week 7 -14 was distributed. Please read it carefully paying specific attention to the assignments for each week and the due dates.
Please bring with you both the book Religious Literacy and Twelve Theological Dilemmas.
Assignments See syllabus. 1.  Begin reading the Introduction and Chapter One of Religious Literacy (Chapter One should be completed with notes by October 28th)
2. Go to the below website for God in America and complete the Religious Literacy Quiz. Click on "Test Your Religious Literacy" Follow the directions and submit your results to me: mjsims@manor.edu
Website:http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/

 WE open with this. Describe these works of art.

The Fernie Swastikas were a women's hockey team that was formed in 1922 in Fernie, British Columbia. Their uniform used as a symbol the swastika, which before World War II was a common religious symbol, and especially a sun sign. In 1923, the Swastikas won the Alpine Cup at the Banff Winter Carnival women's ice hockey championship. There were two other teams called the Swastikas, one in Edmonton, Alberta, and another the Windsor Swastikas Windsor, Nova Scotia.^[1]

Spanish monks

The Eye of Providence is a symbol depicting the all-seeing eye of God in a triangle and/or surrounded by rays of glory. It can be a real Christian symbol (in which case, the triangle stands for the Christian Trinity), but it was also taken up by 18th-century Deists and Freemasons. 

All-Seeing within Equilateral Triangle, Aachen Cathedral, Germany 936 to 1531, the Aachen chapel was the church of coronation for 30 German kings and 12 queens

"Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present."


Stephen Prothero on Religious Literacy