[…] no role. Note the following from a book supposedly written as an inventory of scientific knowledge about human behavior. For the population as a whole, there appears to be little lasting development of that […]
[…] the firing squad. The Blood Atonement Doctrine Mormon doctrine teaches that Christ’s atonement unconditionally saves the entire human family from physical death, the separation of the body and spirit which results from Adam’s transgression. […]
[…] Risk it! Risk it! I ask not for a striptease, but .. . a revelation of the human heart.” With these words in mind, I began sifting and sorting through recent poems by Mormon […]
[…] publication and to promote fellowship and communication among scholars, and because history as a scholarly discipline treats humanity’s perception of divinity’s dealings with it while history as sacred story treats God’s dealings with mankind […]
[…] production increases, increased efficiency re quires specialization, resulting in assembly-line techniques. Bureaucracy is efficient because it de humanizes production, eliminating human error. But in an organization dedicated to human needs, the growth of bureaucracy […]
[…] of nuclear power (the equivalent of 18,000 million tons of TNT). The danger to peace and to humanity is perceived rationally by a few and intuitively by many. The resulting malaise erodes political alliances […]
[…] tianity. It is a strange thing that many Mormons talk and write glibly about the idea that human beings can become gods and that God was once a human being, ideas that, in my […]
[…] the structure of biblical understanding. Not only was God’s word a testament of his continuing interest in human affairs, but his works offered abundant evidence of the nature, power, and majesty of the divine […]
[…] even written texts drop out of a timeless heaven rather than emerging from the historical process of human struggle. The very term, restoration, points to one major expression of this ahistorical tendency: the claim […]
[…] an over-valuation of the significance of documents to history and perhaps simply a lack of understanding of human nature. These conditions almost invited someone to step in and take advantage of the situation. What […]