[…] position of the non believer. Historians who do not believe in God or in divine involvement in human activity will not take seriously Joseph’s claim to communication with God. Furthermore, they cut themselves off […]
[…] individual will survive the death of the mortal body. In contrast, materialists through the ages have emphasized human mortality, believing that there is ultimately no difference between mind (or soul) and body. This point […]
[…] would echo the claim of the nineteenth-century millenarian Alexander Carson: “If the Bible is a book partly human and partly divine, it cannot, as a whole, be the word of God, nor be justly […]
[…] found in the Journal of Management History. It focuses on Weber’s views of authoritative rule, power in human relationships, and his con cern for obedience—issues which certainly have meaning for the LDS church. This […]
[…] for Schleiermacher, Max Scheler, and also Joachim Wach. For Eliade, homo religiosus designates a quality of the human condition.” Part of being human is being religious. Even when an individual deliberately insists on being […]
[…] his life, words, and atonement manifests the love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness of God. I think we human beings tend to understand justice better than mercy and to prefer justice. I believe that the […]
[…] to think as he did? Comparative, transnational histories explore the limits and capacities of the divine and human imagination: what is possible for humans to think and feel? Drawing on observations and suggestions from […]
[…] him to hold both that God was always God and that God was at one point a human. He argues that Joseph Smith’s teachings support the position that “There was an interval of time […]
[…] Church members—believe that (1) implies (2): Joseph Smith relied on the Holy Ghost; therefore, the results of human reason are unreliable. However, this is a mistaken argument which, perhaps, can be seen best by […]
[…] The view presented in this article is primarily oriented to and based upon divine revelation rather than human reason. This is not to infer an awful dichotomy between the two, it is only to […]