Spring 1969
This issue begins with Leonard J. Arrington discussing the intellectual tradition of the Latter-day Saints, providing insights into the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the faith. An interview with Harvey Cox offers an engaging dialogue about contemporary religious thought. The piece on the St. George Tabernacle highlights its historical and architectural significance through a photographic essay, capturing its cultural importance within the Mormon community. Robert J. Morris presents "Middle Buddha," exploring intersections between Buddhism and Mormonism. In the "From the Pulpit" section, Hugh B. Brown pays tribute to P. A. Christensen, reflecting on his contributions and legacy. The roundtable discussion focuses on the Palmyra Revival's impact on Mormon origins. Reverend Wesley P. Walters offers new perspectives on this revival, while Richard L. Bushman revives the First Vision story in response. Walters then provides a counter-reply, engaging in a scholarly exchange that deepens the understanding of these foundational events. Overall, the whole issue offers a rich examination of Mormon thought, history, and interfaith dialogue.
In one of the earliest books of imaginative literature about the Ameri can West (published in 1826), novelist-editor-missionary-biographer Timothy Flint reveals a common impression of the time that “in travelling towards the frontier, the decreasing…
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? Psalm 137:4 If anybody asks me where I’ve been, I say Utah and China. When I realized that “Southern Far East Mission” didn’t mean…
Dear Sirs: Your poemed portraits proveth much(They prove both plus and minus) So let old Ernie have his view—Give deference to his highness. Robert Baer El Cerrito, Calif. *** Dear Sirs: I have read with interest the…
The urban age—with all its complexities, opportunities, and monstrous problems—is upon us. How are Christians—and Mormons—responding to this new environment? This article will present exploratory research com paring Mormons and non-Mormons and will be followed…
It is currently fashionable to look ahead to see what the future is likely to be, and, if what is seen is unsatisfactory, to consider alternative futures and means necessary to achieve them. This is…
“Are we still Mormons?” Surely most readers will feel that this question cannot be anything but rhetorical, at worst a cheap journalistic trick to at tract an audience, or at best a pretext to affirm…
Worship and Music in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be had as a single volume or in two separate bindings. One volume (separately reviewed) includes the first seven chapters of the…
The irreverence in the Church today “is not irreverence of disdain for spiritual things, but rather the irreverence of undeveloped spirituality.” So writes the author of Worship in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
Woman Is My Idea, a comedy by Don C. Liljenquist, was produced and directed by Don C. Liljenquist at the Belasco Theatre in New York on 111 West 44th Street on Wednesday, September 25, 1968.…
This is a very disturbing film. Members of the Church ought to be warned to avoid it and to keep their children away from it. Its philosophy is “loaded”! It assumes that the immoral is…
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, ‘Be bold! Be bold!” and everywhere, “Be bold; be not too bold!” Yet better the excess than the defect; better more than less . . . . Longfellow, Morituri…
Since the year 1838, when Joseph Smith, Jr., set down the official account of his first vision, the story has continued to grow in importance in the eyes of Mormon leaders until it has come…
The Reverend Mr. Walters’ article on the first vision raised quite a stir among Mormon scholars when an early version circulated about a year and a half ago. The essay was clearly another piece of…
I appreciate the magnanimous spirit of Dialogue in printing my essay and this reply. Dr. Bushman’s courteous and able polemic is regrettably marred by some historical inaccuracies and by a tendency to set aside historical…
Sister Ruth, family, in-laws, friends and relatives, Brothers and Sisters, it is an honor, but a humbling experience, to be invited to speak at the funeral of a great man, a great soul. I appreciate…
