Summer 1966
Dialogue's second issue went to press amid much optimism. In this issue J. D. Williams traces the Church's relationship to politics from the Missouri and Illinois period through April Conference, 1966, and examines closely the issues raised by the impingement of ecclesiastical authorities and their pronouncements on the democratic process. In a very different kind of essay, Karl Keller relates his LDS faith and experience to the struggle for civil rights in the South. Our lead article for this issue looks at the Church's involvement in yet another area of secular activity - the visual arts. James Hasel tine, Director of the Salt Lake Art Center, has examined diaries, letters, and other historical sources in order to give a picture of official Church support of the arts in the nineteenth century and to compare it with the situation of Mormon artists today, a situation which he describes as a "Gentile" at home in Utah, with understanding, some praise, and some strong recommendations. And more!
When the Savior said it, it seemed simple enough — to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”[1] But when the demands of Caesar’s world encroach…
Paul Tillich,[1] the well-known German-American Protestant philosophical theologian, died on October 23, 1965, at the age of seventy-nine. I experienced a deep sense of personal loss upon hearing of his death. The man with whose…
Dialogue 1.2 (Summer 1966): 72–79
In this important article in one of the earliest Dialogue issues, Keller says “I went because I was frankly worried: worried that my wife and children should find me slipping after talking intense brotherhood, worried that the church members I led and taught should know where the doctrine but not the action in life is, worried that the students I counseled and read and philosophized with where I taught should reach for meaning for their lives and find no guts, worried in fact that I should somehow while propagating and preaching the Kingdom of God miss it, miss it altogether. The rest was nonsense.”
Dear Sirs: I have just finished reading the First Presidency’s statement in the April Era against pornography and obscenity. As a widow with three young boys to raise I am concerned about the possible dangers…
On Mormon Theology | Riding Herd (Excerpt from a Letter) | Production of Plays with Mormon Themes | Improving the Gospel Doctrine Class
Sacramental hours cross this chapel of infinity where the arch of the brain dreams horror.And no one comes. Within the waiting shadows the silence says wait: the darkness is a piece of a piece in the rapture of even being. But no…
God may have his presencein silence only, made so that a man may have space and timeto make himself himself.Whatever is is lost — but the unmade silencesteach hope, and possibility,and all the virtues God gave men to make gods…
Why ritual? May I not receiveChrist without burialBy water? If I remember That He bled, If I believe, What need for Sacramental bread? Only this I know: All cries out For form — No impulse Can rest Until somehow It is manifest. Even my spirit, Housed in heaven,Was…
Death is the great forget, they said,A mindless, restful leaving Of all consciousness and careIn a vast unweaving. And so I waited, cramped and still,For approaching Death to bringForgetfulness—but all he broughtWas a huge remembering.
I have no vulture sins, God,That overhang my sky, To climb, grey-feathering the air,And swoop carnivorously. It’s just the tiny sins, God, That from memory appear Like tedious buzzing flies to dartLike static through my prayer.
Discussing religion in America, de Tocqueville once remarked that “religions ought . . . to confine themselves within their own precincts; for in seeking to extend their power beyond religious matters, they incur a risk…
During the third week of January, 1966, millions of Americans united in prayer, beseeching God’s assistance in their quest for Christian unity. One of the leading advocates of this ecumenical movement is Horton Davies, Putnam…
The Church of England, the heir of a nineteen hundred year Christian tradition, has fallen upon evil days. At least such is the assessment of The Reverend Nicholas Stacey, Rector of Woolwich, in a recent…
A survey of Latter-day Saint literature dealing with science and religion will reveal that, with few exceptions, biologists are poorly represented. All manner of other scientists and technologists, including chemists, physicists, geologists, agriculturalists, sociologists, medical…
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter has been published following the success of her long novel, Ship of Fools. None of the stories is new although she includes three “lost” stories and has finished…
Throughout the nineteenth century, the Church and its leaders were regularly involved with federal and state law. The recent article by Professor Dallin H. Oaks[1] is a prudent, well researched attempt to deal with one…
Continuing our bibliographical coverage of Mormon material, we turn our attention in this issue to dissertations and theses written to fulfill requirements for graduate degrees.
God is not dead in Hollywood. The phenomenal success of The Sound of Music means that nuns are in again, and two current movies give us a choice, according to side-by-side newspaper ads, of Rosalind…
In his article on the quest for authority in early Mormonism, Mario De Pillis contends that “the question of the historical origins of Mormonism must ever remain central” in any exchange between Mormons and non-Mormons.…
It is not only refreshing in itself but also an occasion for rejoicing by all serious students of American religious history that Mario S. De Pillis is recalling our attention to the historical study of…
Let me begin by congratulating the editors and founders of Dialogue for their intellectual daring and integrity in the handling of this journal. And I want to thank them for inviting considered commentary on my…
It seems curious to ask, “What support has the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints given to the visual arts in Utah?” One would hardly consider as fields for fruitful exploration Baptist support of…
