Introduction To Relgion

Question 1

What type of religion is Geek religion ?

Answer 1

Polytheistic
And
Anthropomorphic

Question 2

How does Parker describe Greek religion ?

Answer 2

It’s is ‘embedded religion’
It’s deeply burnt into the grain of Greek life and it’s hard to seperation the colloquial life from religious practice

Question 3

How does Burket( 1985) describe the Greek gods ?

Answer 3

‘ the gods exist but they cannot be harnessed to the ends of man; they seem familiar in their humanity… but still they remain distant’

Anthropomorphic in both appereance and action

Question 4

How does Parker (1991) describe the relationship between man and the gods in terms of publicity ?

Answer 4

‘Piety was expressed by behaviour in acts of respect towards the gods.. Religion was not a matter of in inner ness or intense private communicate to the gods’

Question 5

What is the relationship between man and god ?

Answer 5

Reciprocal
Du ut des ‘ I give so that you may give’
The prescribed element is the giving from the mortal not the benefit in return