[…] Smith; rather, he undertook nothing less than a comprehensive, coherent account of the whole cosmic context of human existence—from the intelligence of God, through the organization of the universe, the creation of man and […]
. . . the eternal human Self cannot escape from existence nor can it escape from the awareness of its existence . . . —B. F. Cummings The Matter At Large: Mormon Beliefs and […]
Members of the Mormon Church headquartered in Salt Lake City may have reacted anywhere along the spectrum from sublime indifference to temporary discomfiture to cold terror at the recently discovered blessing by Joseph Smith, Jr.,…
[…] the traditional idea of God as absolute denies the possibility of moral discrimination and is meaningless in human experience. A concept of God as a personal living being, in contrast, heightens the significance of hu […]
[…] Testament references, however, it is God who applies the seals; there is no clear reference to a human intermediary as part of the “sealing” function. The sixteenth-century Reformation used many of these “sealing” passages […]
[…] impotence, I nevertheless remember John Ciardi’s definition of a bad poem as one that “either misplaces its human sympathies” or has such gross “technical incompetencies” as to be unacceptable. Herein lies the problem. Some […]
[…] 116). He saw fidelity as central to married love, which he portrayed as the supreme form of human happiness and wholeness at the end of each of his comedies and the violation or interruption […]
[…] It is this temptation of sensual love, marriage, and children that causes us to see the truly human side of Jesus. And it seems to be this demonstration of humanity that offends the protestors. […]
[…] years later, he noted that “instead of being a message of hope and knowledge for the whole human race such as we bring by Spiritualism, it is tending towards the discredited and old world […]
[…] of grand first general conference report in which the life mission of Jesus of Nazareth, with its human contexts and conflicts, its personalities and parables, its trials and ambiguities and quiet human moments, is […]