[…] he said, have combined a study of “the details of Mormon history and culture .. . in human or naturalistic terms . . . ‘without thus rejecting the divinity of the Church’s origin and […]
[…] sense, all the truths that Mormonism claims to teach of God are constructed through and limited by human perception. The process of questioning and exploring alters the limits human biases place on understanding the […]
[…] The completely rational theology foreseen by the philosophes has not appeared. Nor have the attempts to reduce human behavior (particularly ethics) to biology and chemistry been successful. Moreover, the scientific criticism of religious history […]
[…] is what you get in myth. . . . The truth overlights both ideologies, and no single human institution or single individual can embody the fullness of truth” (1978, 119). Modern usage imputes to […]
The human mind seems irresistibly compelled by (at least) two incompatible intuitions: first, that as morally responsible beings we are able to do other than what we do; second, that what happens now could […]
[…] leadership. Joseph was a complex man with a vivid appreciation of the paradoxes and tragedies that color human life, an appreciation that often manifested as compassion, broad mindedness, and a dedication to the truth […]
[…] ever before, there is simply no excuse for this narrowing up of the way we convey the human relationship to the divine.” Besides being regarded as a reflection of the way the Church wishes […]
[…] the societies of the Bible took part. Here is a poetic figure who is certainly more than human and also clearly female. Do we see here the beginning of a chink in the armor […]
[…] is a necessary consequence of the present and “reductionistic” because it reduces more com plex phenomena, including human beings, simply to matter-in-motion. After Napoleon had considered Laplace’s famous treatise on Celestial Mechanics, he asked […]
[…] lessons of history, of the Russian Bolshevik family law reforms, they will seek to avoid the terrible human and social tragedies that resulted from that failed experiment, and they will avoid and eliminate family […]