Bibliography: MDFAXJ5M

key	MDFAXJ5M
title	The Next Stage
author	Martin, Douglas
authority control	Douglas Martin
item type	Journal article
publication year	2013
date	2013-12
publication title	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
abstract note	The failure of the generality of humankind to recognize the relevance of Bahá'u'lláh's message results largely from a prevailing prejudice against any spiritually-based solutions for social dysfunction. With the opening of the twenty-first century, however, the efficacy of the solutions proffered by Bahá'u'lláh could not be more obvious. The Bahá'í community itself constitutes unarguable evidence of the transformative power of His Message. Consequently, its members - and particularly the scholars among them - find themselves at a stage in the Faith's development wherein they can and must reconstruct a discourse that will free the subject from the presumptions of what Shoghi Effendi terms a "haughty intellectualism." As Bahá'ís take on this challenge, the Associatioon for Bahá'í Studies will indeed open avenues through which knowledge of the Bahá'í Cause may legitimately find expression in institutions of higher learning.
pages	6-29
issue	1-4
volume	23
language	English
manual tags	SPIRITUALITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SCHOLARSHIP; ACADEMIA