An Apology for Perfection

An attempt to understand and evaluate a religious movement properly begins with the search for its essential foundations – its meaning at the point of its origin. Then the faith, understood historically, must be tested in the crucible of contemporary struggles and problems. Like the view through a stereoscope, the resultant picture, doubly viewed through lenses of a past age and the present scene, offers a truer insight into the meaning of a religious faith than can be obtained without such...