[…] an official source than “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” we find this statement: “By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide […]
[…] contemporary religious experience and scholarship. Recognizing that the understanding of religious experience is always qualified by the human nature of those involved, the church has traditionally avoided creedal statements.” In openly saying that RLDS […]
[…] 209–213</i><br> “I was excommunicated from the Church in 1986. I am a gay man in a twenty -five–year–long relationship with my husband Göran Gustav–Wrathall. We were legally married in July 2008. Over the years, […]
[…] may be of interest to the religious believer, the sociologist is concerned with the social or the human aspects of religion, whereas the religionist is concerned with the supernatural aspects. The sociologist examines man–man […]
[…] and early 1870’s, Utah was no place for a Gentile. What one historian has called a “full -blown boycott” had developed against non–Mormon businesses by the end of 1868. The local and territorial government […]
[…] Deity. The finest goals of life and eternal life will not and cannot be attained without maximum human effort. I am not retreating on any of the basic Mormon doctrines of man and their […]
[…] made the name appropriate. Stegner has much to praise about the results of Mormonism. He finds more human kindness, neighborliness, and fellowship among the Mormons than elsewhere in the United States. They are, he […]
[…] to go, but at last he got his face turned toward his home, more by accident than design, and went reeling along the road not knowing where he was; he would have passed his […]
[…] concluded that the “true” religion must be constructive and positive in its effect on the growth of human personality and could best be “pictured” in Jesus. I then made my commitment. As I put […]
[…] but at the center of their lives. To encounter Jesus Christ implies a complete reorientation of the human being. Bonhoeffer identifies Christ as “the man for others” and insists that one can only be […]