Art, Religion and the Market Place
May 4, 2018[…] and ironies of a King Lear or a Moby Dick. But what about such awesome studies in human degeneration as Medea and Macbeth? What about that wry satirical questioning of all values, Vanity Fair, […]
[…] and ironies of a King Lear or a Moby Dick. But what about such awesome studies in human degeneration as Medea and Macbeth? What about that wry satirical questioning of all values, Vanity Fair, […]
[…] unless it is developed within the bounds of the concrete, material, physical, and practical experiences of our human experience. Theosis, or the process of becoming gods, implies a polytheism filled with generational gods as […]
[…] that the “lost tribe” stories I’d heard reflected the fact that many traditions are common to all humanity. It seemed to me that one can find parallels between almost any two cultures by chance. […]
[…] viewed as the word of God, but Joseph Smith, in this construct, would be the book’s inspired human author rather than its inspired translator.” Clearly, such a view provokes ultimate questions about the Book […]
[…] He argues that recognizing the worth of all people, irrespective of race, is essential for the Church to fulfill its spiritual and moral ideals and to contribute positively to society’s progress toward greater human brotherhood.
[…] in authority.” Finally, Thimme accused both religions of rejecting what he considered Christianity’s most important concept: that human nature is thoroughly corrupted by sin and that it carries out the will of God, not […]
[…] from the exhibit’s tenure at BYU MOA, but one factor was certainly Mormonism’s complex reverence for the human body coupled with its leaders’ long–standing assumptions about the purpose and value of art. Though this […]
[…] My dear brother David Holland at Harvard, who was a distinguished historian. He was just a magnificent human being in terms of kindness. He was my dear colleague, has always treated me with deep […]
[…] not be considered offensive or heterodox by traditionalists. This essay is therefore a little exercise in religion -making. It is my hope that I will be able to express my mediating thoughts in a […]
[…] polemics, from attacking or defending assumptions of faith. It is a shift from an evangelical towards a humanistic interest. As the Mormon historian Richard Bushman put it, it is “a quest for identity rather […]