[…] God or venerate instead the eternal law that controls or at least guides his choices? According to human logic, then, the principles of good and evil, moral and immoral, precede the existence of God, […]
[…] accused a particularly famous purveyor of female pills of “destroying the lives of both mothers and embryo human beings to an incredible extent.” He advocated for her arrest in print. “If human life,” he […]
[…] course of many years. Positions held privately by various early Mormon leaders—from pro-slavery to gradualist emancipation—theological speculation, human conflict, personal ambition, and political pressures on Mormon settlements in border and frontier states all played […]
[…] Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both […]
[…] need to identify with a Being of power but without such forbidding distance that his participation in human affairs is inconceivable. McMurrin has set up a dilemma for Christian theology worthy of Orson Pratt: […]
[…] a religious dimension. Tillich always sought to identify the religious dimension, the style, within every department of human culture. He considered communism, nationalism, and liberal humanism as “world religions” because they are bearers of […]
[…] pioneers in a cause, no curious in search of messages, but merely volunteers hoping that this brief human contact would assure us of our humanity and others of theirs. I wanted to feel that […]
[…] denies the need for a spiritual rebirth and for the redemption. This trust in the power of human reason and human nature leads liberals to believe that man “is good and that he alone […]
[…] Courtship and Marriage and in Family Relations at L.D.S. Institutes of Religion and the doctoral program in Human Development and Family Relations (among other doctoral programs in the social sciences at Brigham Young University) […]
Civil disturbances are rarely born of frivolous causes. Human beings are more inclined to suffer grievances than to pit themselves in what usually ap pears to be a hopeless battle against the authority and […]