1987
Mr. Douglas Martin reviews the roles of religion and science over the past 400 years. Science and its tendency to secularism, and religion and its tendency to dogmatism and obscurantism suggest the question: “How can two such opposing approaches to reality converge?” It is the Bahá’í Community that offers the model for fundamental change. Shoghi Effendi wrote that it was the “society-building power” in the mission of Baha’u’llah” which is “slow and unobtrusive to which the life of the world-wide Bahá’í Community is wholly consecrated…”. Unity of thought and action; a new system of collective decision-making are two of the distinguishing features of the world-wide Bahá’í Community.