Item Detail
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29643
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2
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2
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English
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Seeing the Church as a Human Institution
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Sunstone
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July 2003
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128
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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20-23
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"I have found it helpful to keep in mind certain basic ways of understanding the Church as an institution, and I would like to share a few of these with you in case they might offer some useful perspective. First, I try to keep in ming that the Church makes no claim to being a democratic institution... Second, I have learned that social groups, especially large, bureaucratic organizations, whether kingdoms or democracies, operate by supraindividual processes and imperatives... Third, the human element shows itself not only in normal organizational processes and unintended consequences within the Church but also in the comings and goings of human influences from outside." [Author]