[…] depict Mormons—as cardboard stereotypes, perfect, flawless, sexless and gutless? Don’t the Jews realize that to put real human beings with real human problems into their books will destroy their public image? Apparently they’re not […]
[…] nations of the earth. But they found that however divine their commandments, these commandments were implemented by human beings acting in keeping with the best light they possessed. The RLDS Church, therefore, worked toward […]
[…] both alike to us, but we shall go for our friends, our tried friends, and the cause of human liberty, which is the cause of God” (DHC, IV, 479–80). Smith’s views had changed dramatically in […]
[…] our religion and present student radicalism; they ex press a basic faith in the godly potential of human beings. Another analogy is seen in Mormon community theory. Our religion is a kind of enlarged […]
[…] me,” the missionary often thinks. “I’d never do that. I wouldn’t dare. And besides, though I’m very human, I genuinely don’t want to.” How had Bruce forgotten that burning resolve? To this point I […]
[…] my answer had to be “No.” The commandments in modern scripture, the vision of perfect love in human relations, of unconditional regard for the welfare of others at whatever sacrifice to the self is […]
[…] movement of private Church members in the Armed Forces or in business as well as by administrative design; and the gradual acknowledgement that somehow theology and practice must take into account those outside the […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints sees both God and man in a temporal, that i§^ historical,’ context, but it has developed no authoritative, systematic statement of the philosophical implications of […]
[…] be taught in a frame work that emphasizes its spirituality. It is a distortion of sexuality in human beings to act as if it were merely a matter of anatomy and physiology.” It is […]
[…] a penetrating and often profound way. Having a “subject”—in other words focusing on a significant aspect of human experience—is what distinguishes Frost in the Orchard from most Mormon fiction. Too many writers in the […]