[…] literature they choose to read. In classical literature, writers often speak of the seat of virtue in human beings as the “heart.” Classical philosophy encourages us to think of virtue as achievable through rational […]
[…] for its origin. It must come from the medieval insistence on the rationality of God.” Faith in human progress and the rationality of God sustained scientists such as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. Even […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Change came as Breen retired and his successor, Geoffrey Shurlock, adopted his own standard of allowing real human behavior he did not believe audiences would find gross or offensive. Talk about a vague standard. […]
[…] the atonement accomplished something objective. Instead, he suggested that the atonement works only because it influences the human heart. The atonement was Christ’s perfect example to humanity. Suffering was not required to satisfy God […]
[…] wish to bring their faith into dialogue with the larger stream of world religious thought and with human experience as a whole and to foster artistic and scholarly achievement based on their cultural heritage. […]
[…] objects that can be inspirational or comforting to us are often not what we could call evolved human beings. Their lives are often chaotic; their relationships with other people are frequently destructive; they often […]
[…] a scripture written from an unabashed first-person perspective that both openly admits and also not-so-openly reveals its human limitations? At the time the Book of Mormon “came forth” in 1830, American Protestants were struggling […]
[…] ever have any uncertainty about our basic Ameri can principles being sound principles of good government and human development and well being. From that standpoint, I think the Church does give one an assurance […]
[…] thousands of images of Heavenly Mother in just a few years. If “religion is a projection of human ideals,” as scholar Taylor Petrey has argued, then much of Mormon art depicting God tells a […]