The Everlasting Man | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Cave-Man - This individual is man's supposed primitive ancestor. It is completely common for a scientist to reason that this individual had no religion, merely from the fact that none of the three drawings that have been discovered show any religious symbol.

Jesus Christ - This individual is, according to followers, the physical incarnation of the one God. His coming to the world marks the synthesis of man's natural religious desires of imagination and reason. With this individual, the transcendent God of the philosophers became the tangible God of the myth-makers.

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