[…] that later Church leaders would come to deny: that Jesus’s suffering in the garden was (in his humanity) in contemplation of his impending torture and crucifixion, with Lorenzo Snow making this point expressly in […]
[…] that he was isolated during some of the hardest parts of his life. He was a superb human being. In every way he was a wonderful human being and I just didn’t see any […]
[…] or you’re rejected from your primary community of attachments, your body experiences like you’re preparing to die.” Humans are social creatures and surviving without our most important social connections was historically impossible for our […]
[…] vast spiritual library. For just about a century and a half, the comparative and respectful study of humanity’s sacred literature has become a commonplace of American higher education and a standard feature of parish […]
[…] possible origins for the translation of the Book of Mormon. It was either a divine translation, a human translation, or a machine translation. What I mean by “machine” translation is some sort of preprogrammed […]
[…] Noah that his people are beggars in the promised land, and that Jehovah will tolerate neither in humanity nor arrogance.” We should note that it also plays a role in Jesus’s sermons to the […]
[…] tradition. Such a testimonial vision from God is not designed to address the empirical world of its human participants and cannot lend itself to historical-critical assessment. How ever, each witness had subsequent experiences which […]
[…] that he did not consider the least sinful; but, more importantly, it would block the progress of human inquiry. The next word of significance in the title is species, a term then synonymous with […]
[…] submit to you that the Prophet Joseph Smith in translating the Book of Mormon did a super human task,” Brown declared to his audience. “I ask you students to go out and write a […]
[…] Mormonism may be the manner in which it articulates Mormonism’s self-conscious mission to mankind. The social and humanistic disciplines abound with studies of the significance of sacred narratives, often called creation myths, for the […]