[…] this cosmic question depend entirely upon the assumptions he brings to it—assumptions about the nature of the world and man’s place in it; these rest in the last analysis upon personal predilection, not historical […]
Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37 Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in the […]
[…] paid a call or two on her there, but I suddenly found myself a stranger in a world of tales, prophecies, precautions and remedies, mysteries reaching with ancient but powerful force from a prehistoric […]
[…] were possible to be more analytical about Dad and about his place in the Church and the world, to set him more in the context of the political changes, economic fluctuations, even the war […]
[…] polygamy, and communism with vassalage. It is a gigantic school where all the theories of the Old World founded upon the principle of authority or freedom may be tested to serve as instruction for […]
[…] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977); Robert N. Bellah, Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World (New York, 1970); and George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Religion (New York, 1936). […]
[…] major offshoots of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the most emphatically committed to the reality of the spiritual world. In what is only a seeming paradox, Mormons might be said to believe in a form […]
[…] of describing this crisis has to do with “scientific realism.” Here we might ask, What is the world? What kinds of things are in it? What is truth? Is there, in fact, any such […]
[…] of both groups to establish congregations in Canada’s far west and explores why the growth of the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter Day Saint churches in British Columbia became so lopsided after World War II.
[…] is that there is a God.[1] And, since God set the forces in motion that called this world into being, it follows that all truth, from whatever source, relates to him and his existence. […]