Dear Mark: You wrote:
>The Guardianship includes more than Shoghi Effendi's writings and letters. His position as Head of the >Faith has now been taken over by the House of Justice, and, if the Guardian (or `Abdu'l-Baha) did not >produce an authoritative interpretation of a particular text, the House of Justice cannot do it for him. The Guardian and before him the Center of the Covenant exercised their interpretative role not only and not even primarily through the interpretation of specific words and passages of Baha'u'llah's Writings, but by giving interpretations of Baha'u'llah's ideas. And while the Universal House of Justice is not empowered to give interpretations of Baha'u'llah's ideas, this institution is authorized to give elucidations of the interpretations of 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi, and elucidations of all matters that have caused division amongst Baha'is, and elicidations of matters that are ambiguous in the both the Writings and authoritative interpretations. We are not left "high and dry". With warm regards, Peter ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
