This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
From Kenneth L. Pike
The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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