[…] Bible told the history of a so-called “chosen people,” and Rigdon interpreted the his tory of the world since New Testament times in terms of biblical prophecy. He did not share the interests of […]
[…] story need to be compared when we can historicize their relationship to one another and to the world around them? The field of history of religions (defined at this point by scholars such as […]
[…] the abstractions of the complex and the unusual. He wrote about nearly everything that made up the world in which he lived, but primarily he wrote about other people and their attitudes toward the […]
[…] it takes second place to secular studies. A third position is to choose to live in both worlds, to keep faith, as it were, with both one’s religious commitments and with the ways of […]
[…] shirting and a pair of bloomers, slipping out of the blazing summer sunshine into the rustling green world of corn, moving down the row, careful that an outstretched corn leaf did not saw across […]
[…] any number of situations. The musical style lacks the unity of the story and lyrics. A Latin- American nightclub style (a la Las Vegas), tends to take the viewer’s mind farther south than Southern […]
[…] giving guidance on moral questions. John E. Moss pointed out that “throughout the history of the western world religious leaders have given leadership to promote human rights and dignity. They should continue to do […]
[…] human creations against the more or less measurable effects of discoveries, inventions, and creations in the material world is of course meaningless in one way. And yet our sense of comparative values insists on […]
[…] last half-century at least, serious attempts to reconcile our theological views with other intellectual currents in the world even while more of our community now seems in need of it and qualified to evaluate […]
[…] is very reasonable, and a simple faith that somehow personality will be preserved in a vaguely-defined spirit world (where we have little objective evidence for its existence) is not sufficient for many trained, analytical […]