[…] is analogous to the relationship of spirit to matter”; femaleness is correlated with “the lower part of human nature in hierarchical scheme of mind over body” (1985, 64; 1983, 93). Ruether further notes that […]
[…] language and action should at all times be in harmony with the highest standards of the Church. Human language and action — even Mormon language and action — are not always in harmony with […]
[…] Fromm the opportunity of presenting his religious views to a new audience. He has simply cast his humanist religious commitments in the form of an “interpretation” of the Bible, which he has then supported […]
[…] It is almost impossible to overestimate the importance of this recognition. Nothing is more difficult than for human beings to grasp the extent to which their powers are held in captivity by the robot. […]
[…] world government of Christ will be established with irresistible power, by the Lord, and not by man. Human beings will not voluntarily develop a world government in the foreseeable future. One organization which promotes […]
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Marginalizing God the Mother does not solve the problems raised by Mormonism’s doctrine of divine and human embodiment. It merely diminishes femaleness as a reflection of divinity. We do not need fewer images […]
[…] partially empirical, partially existential, wholly religious knowledge I premise all that follows. I take the fact of human freedom to be so fundamental that it can tell us something about nearly every philosophical, moral, social, […]
A not altogether sober inquiry into how a secular humanist has managed to live for thirty years in relative peace in Zion. I Thoreau wrote in the beginning of Walden, “I have lived some […]
[…] looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter -day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative […]
[…] the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment of the relation between early nineteenth -century Universalism and the teachings of the Book of Mormon and subsequent revelations.