[…] they bound sacred and secular so close together that the dividing line between them all but disappeared. Human endeavor in America became a sacred and eternal reality, a matter of “eternal progression.” By understanding […]
[…] it raised. When In His Image was published, people were forced to ask some provocative questions: Is human cloning actually possible? What are its social, moral and religious implications? What psychological problems will a […]
[…] the next decade in Asia alone, every second of the day a child will be born—3.5 new human beings every second globally. Of this number, some 15 million children annually die—more than 40,000 a […]
[…] new way of writing Mormon history is an example of a larger scholarly effort he terms “ human studies.” He spends a third of his article trying to establish that human studies, manifesting a “relativistic […]
[…] their highest manifestations, which are spiritual, but rather in their lowest, which are carnal. Negative attitudes toward human sexuality can be traced back at least to Plato, who believed that the material world is a […]
[…] and utterly simple, at other times a confusing concoction of antithetical ingredients, Christianity exhibits at once the human capacity for cultural syncretism, the human need for religious satisfaction, and the human propensity to credulity. […]
[…] 7:29). In other words, Enoch wonders, how can an absolute and, thus, all-powerful being do such a human thing as weep? Humans weep in response to tragic events they cannot change; God can change […]
[…] the Constitution “demonstrate as visibly the finger of providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.” While not referenced as such, the statement is from a May […]
[…] of limbo. In this remarkable feat of literary brevity, we discover the very blueprint that defines the human condition: the conundrum of opposites, or “immortal antagonists” (using a term coined by Freud). Like Adam […]
[…] was an attempt at Mormon theology that both defended Young’s theory of divine embodiment and accounted for human exaltation. For Musser, the goal of the pamphlet was “acquainting the Saints with the true God […]