[…] though there is, in my opinion, no subject of such intense inherent interest as that of the human soul in conflict with itself and no questions more urgent than those of values. In our […]
[…] under the influence of Niehbuhr’s The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation. Niebuhr argued that humans combine a yearning for the infinite with the reality of finitude. They aspire to be gods […]
[…] for whom the alarm invokes an avian relationship disrupted by suffering. Despite the status quo pulling the human world toward business-as-usual, despite the human desire “willing to keep / centripetal force,” to hold us […]
[…] from BYU and the Church Edu-cational System, and youth of the Church joined to create the pamphlet, designed to be a guide for youth and their parents. The First Presidency (then David O. McKay, […]
[…] but by how well it teaches the truth or meaning of what it means to be a human being in a divinely given world. Often it can do the latter well only at the expense […]
[…] God as well as Greek descriptions of their goddesses. But Chadwick’s goddess can be more accessible and human than the Greek pantheon, as in the delightful unrhymed sonnet beginning “Goddess stirring something up, folding […]
[…] 1970s, may have consisted of electroshock therapy programs, nausea-inducing chemical treatments, and a host of other de humanizing methods in an attempt to change the sexual orientation of homosexual people. Reparative therapy and other […]
[…] by pre conceived notions of a given pattern structure. Such a fantasy is seductive but ultimately elusive. Human beings, by definition, are locked into systems of pattern recognition, whether we like it or not. […]
Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who used his peepstone to discover the location of buried treasure.
[…] held by some that Adam was not the first man upon this earth, and that the original human being was a development from lower orders of the animal creation. These, however, are the theories […]