[…] and policed, that island of peace cannot be trespassed. This is the foundation of Thurman’s perspective on human agency. Within the umbrella of Christianity considered generally, “agency” is a term with a varied usage […]
[…] it is something possessed by God, it never varies, is eternally fixed, and is made known to humankind through revelation. This absolute view of truth is problematic because it is open to being used […]
[…] 106–141
Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same–Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease […]
[…] has overseen the creation of this and other worlds, and they believe that the universe, earth, and humans all have some transcendent purpose. A reasonably open–minded philosophy of this sort is entirely consistent with […]
[…] was the rationalism of men like Franklin, Paine, and Jefferson, who gave reason the leading role in human endeavor. The high estimate of man which in the Transcendentalism of Emerson raised man to the […]
[…] as a dark, brutish time with little to recommend it, but rather as a period of extraordinary human intellectual and artistic achievements comparable to, if not surpassing, those of the Renaissance. Additionally, Roberts’s view […]
[…] been planned in a mixture of styles typical of the 1840s and 1850s but the interiors were designed in the 1880s and 90s in a more opulent Victorian mode. The original plans had called […]
[…] he said, have combined a study of “the details of Mormon history and culture .. . in human or naturalistic terms . . . ‘without thus rejecting the divinity of the Church’s origin and […]
[…] family. Understanding queer stories of godhood expands limited or narrow concepts of divinity to include all of humanity. To be clear, through theological storytelling I seek to find clarity regarding previous, imperfect, and exclusionary […]
[…] is what you get in myth. . . . The truth overlights both ideologies, and no single human institution or single individual can embody the fullness of truth” (1978, 119). Modern usage imputes to […]