How is cultural change analogous to biological evolution Forum Question: How is cultural change analogous to biological evolution? What important limitations are there to this analogy? In order to fully answer this question, consider issues of cultural innovation and cultural evolution. ONLY NEED TO BE 250 WORDS  Forum Question: During this course we will be exploring many facets of Anthropology. I think it is important to remember those early practitioners of the field who really are responsible for guiding and shaping anthropology into the science it is today. A very influential anthropologist, Marvin Harris, focused his research on trying to understand why societies responded to issues the way they did. His work culminated in the theory of cultural materialism, which notes that human social life is a response to the practical problems of earthly existence. Please use your textbook or an outside source to define cultural materialism. Do you agree with this concept? Is human social life a response to outside problems and concern or are there other forces at work? What could they be?

Unit 5 Lesson 5.1.  After reading the Study Notes for this lesson and after reading Kereszty (251-266), please answer the following questions. 1.    The Patristic principle of participation, central even to the theology of Origen, would move to the center of theological attention during the Middle Ages.  Reviewing the theology of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, please discuss the “history of the Word incarnate” (253) and its importance for the individual Christian’s conversion. 2.    Up until now the Assignments have focused on person and nature of Jesus Christ and on the salvation of humans. But the created order, in some sense, also stands in need of salvation.  Please explain this in the light of St. Anselm’s theology and discuss its relationship to human salvation. 3.    St. Thomas Aquinas sets out a distinct edifice describing the hypostatic union in which the concepts person and subject play a central role.  Please explain St. Thomas’ theology of hypostasis focusing on these two central concepts. Lesson 5.2.  After reading the Study Notes for this lesson and after reading Kereszty (267-324), please answer the following questions. 1.    While outlining Luther’s contributions, Kereszty also countenances distortions of Catholic truth in the theology of Martin Luther.  Please explain the theological principle of communicatio idiomata, identify where Luther is at odds with the Magisterium, and discuss how these errors affect conclusions he comes to in his theology. 2.    Please explain Calvin’s understanding of the Patristic principle, Christ as Mediator.  Outline the full trajectory of Christ’s mediation and its role in human salvation. 3.    What is meant by the phrase Liberal Protestant theology?  Please write a summary that includes sections on Kant, Hegel, Bultmann, and Schleiermacher.