Transcendence in Mormonism

March 11, 2011 by James Faulconer

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The infinite transascending relationship with the other person is an analogy to the infinite transascending relationship between God and myself. My relations with other persons who are infinitely other than me teach me about my relationship with God. Though God and human beings each have the being of intelligences, the infinite distance between the Divine and me is of a different order than that between myself and any other human being. He is the Creator and we are his creatures. Understanding our relationship to the other person and our relationship to God in terms of transascendence in different orders (the one infinite; the other doubly infinite) preserves both the "sameness" of God and human beings that Joseph Smith taught and the majesty of God that worship requires.

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About James Faulconer

James Faulconer is a Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University, where he has taught philosophy since 1975.

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