The sudden and unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013 broke a centuries-old tradition within Roman Catholicism of service until-death of its top leader. If, as many expect, Pope Francis I eventually […]
[…] seem to be superficial, missing the root causes of the problem. If radicalism seeks to transform the world by changing the system, and if organized religion addresses itself narrowly to the individual, is it […]
[…] century. Her essay provides valuable insights into the pressures that have shaped her church in the modern world. The 1970 World Conference of the Reorganization may well prove in retrospect to have been the […]
[…] 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 […]