Bibliography: B7TF5C8W

key	B7TF5C8W
title	Scholarship : A Bahá'í Perspective
author	Hatcher, William S.
authority control	William S. Hatcher
item type	Journal article
publication year	1988
date	1988
publication title	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
abstract note	This paper defines scholarship as disciplined intellectual activity undertaken to help determine the truth of some matter or else to apply in a practical way some previously determined truth. More specifically, Baha'i scholarship seeks to understand and/or apply truths contained in the writings of the Baha'i Faith ; it may also involve historical/critical studies of the Baha'i Faith as a social phenomenon. With regard to the first type of Baha'i scholarship, we examine certain passages in the Baha'i writings which comment on these writings themselves and which describe the kinds of truths they contain. In particular, it is seen that the Baha'i writings contain important propositional truths and not just moral injunctions (so-called normative propositions). The relationship between scholarship and other human enterprises is also discussed. The Baha'i conception of scholarship is seen to be unusually broad in scope and to provide thereby the basis for a much greater harmony between scholarship and the various other activities carried on within the Baha'i community.
pages	35-46
issue	2
volume	1
language	English
manual tags	TRUTH; SCHOLARSHIP