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s Confessions . 6 But the most dramatic example of a religious EFTA_R1_01522117 EFTA02444880 Page 133 humanism that spread simultaneously into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be found when the lost texts of Aristotle were discovered, translated, and appropriated by scholars from these three

yond other individuals. In the next chapter, theologian Don Browning also embraces the concept of inclusive fitness and, through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, shows how religion serves the human need for meaning and connection through the ethics they advocate, the congregations they form, the instituti

t in modem theories about the very nature of religion." Modem objections to anthropomorphism have taken two major forms. First, traditions within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long opposed the worship of "idols," and regarded anthropomorphism as a dangerous assault against genuine piety and

al importance of belief for such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. See Luhrmann in this volume. Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: "creation ... is the very dependency of the created act of being

ept in modern theories about the very nature of religion.” Modern objections to anthropomorphism have taken two major forms. First, traditions within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have long opposed the worship of “idols,” and regarded anthropomorphism as a dangerous assault against genuine piety and pro

such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. Pa at Q »e |127 ¢ 1 . . See Luhrmann in this volume. * Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: “creation... is the very dependency of the created act of being upon