[…] understand new scientific breakthroughs within the context of the gospel by focusing on molecular biology and the Human Genome Project, since these two enterprises have been important catalysts for the Biological Revolution. First, a […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “<a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the–genesis–of–a–churchs–stand–on–race/2012/02/22/gIQAQZXyfR_story.html”>The Genesis of a church’s stand on race</a>” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein.
[…] any thing which could possibly be interpreted by a slave, that it was not just to hold human beings in bondage, would be jeopardizing the life of every white inhabitant in the country. For […]
[…] albeit brief, when a “Negro problem” did not exist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. During those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of […]
[…] out of political and religious hierarchies. As Tikva Frymer–Kensky put it, “the Bible presents no characteristics of human behavior as ‘female’ or ‘male,’ no division of attributes between the poles of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine.’ […]
[…] not begotten by the Holy Ghost; and “who is the Father?” He is the first of the human family; and when he took a tabernacle, it was begotten by his father in heaven, after […]
[…] story: as a student overcome with a passion to know the secret of life, Frankenstein created a human body from various unrelated body parts and ultimately brought it to life with electricity, the modern, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] vulnerable to misuse and abuse, what is needed is a way to incorporate individual, varied, and diverse human experience into our understanding and conceptual view of truth. Truth Revealed Anew On May 6, 1833, […]
[…] “reason” marks a practice of theorizing about religious matters which ignores continuing revelation, a practice which substitutes human reason for revelation. Al though not as stark, John Taylor’s comparison of reason with revelation assumes […]