My thesis can be stated fairly briefly through four assumptions.
Firstly, man is inherently a symbol-producing, ritual-producing being ‘who lives not by bread alone’, but who is created in the image of God.
He is not just a naked ape, nor a complex computer on two legs, nor a behavioural mechanism arrived at by a process of evolution; that is he is not these things is the view that I accept.
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2000 - SOME ASPECTS OF THE NATURE OF RITUAL - Guy Palliser.
