[…] was that an ancient humanism—the heresy of Arianism[11]—tainted the Greek text upon which the revisions rested. In order to legitimate the doctrinally more acceptable King James Bible, President Clark championed the “Textus Receptus” (TR), […]
[…] on as though it were a tailored suit in black. How well could her elbows bend in order to cut a person dead, for instance? How easily could she turn contemptuously on her heel […]
[…] and returns to live in the occupied territories in friendship and love with the Israelis. This made-to- order Palestinian has been enlightened by the Western ethics of freedom, dignity, and basic rights but somehow […]
[…] the big bang (Schramm and Steigman 1988, 69). The public disagreement between Richard Leakey and Donald Johanson over the ancestry of modern humans, mentioned by both Boyd and myself, is another case in point. […]
[…] is simply at the opposite end of the spectrum from everyday experience. Such a continuity in the order of being is undoubtedly as much a matter of faith as is Mormonism’s belief in what […]
[…] took to complete the temple made it both a “symbol of Mormonism’s triumph over adversity” (Hamilton 1981, 6) and a “visual statement of faith, commitment and permanence” (Oman and Oman 1980, 120). The temple’s […]
[…] to God we seek, but just as ritual dances provide solace to the Hopi, going to the order and peace of the temple is intrinsically valuable to Church members. Other Latter-day Saint blessings and […]
[…] law, it is frequently seen as equally unfair. Of course the Church upholds the law to maintain order in society; but it must carefully explain this position to divorced members, or it may be […]
[…] that had difficulty dealing with my singleness, I was willing to accept the costs of moving in order to maintain my spiritual link to the Church. And yet, when I heard President Benson’s talk, […]
[…] away, scripture became a necessary instrument to preserve “Judaism.” Ezekiel stood at the crossroads between the old order and the new Jewish religion, a transitional figure during a transitional period. It is unlikely that […]