Summer 2000
The Summer 2000 Issue features articles and essays that explore the development of Mormon dialogue, community growth, and the interplay of ritual and theology. Devery S. Anderson continues his examination of Dialogue, detailing its evolution during the years 1971 to 1982, a period marked by significant growth and maturation in the publication's mission and content. Henri Gooren analyzes the growth of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala, offering a report from a barrio that highlights the challenges and successes faced by the local community. John L. Sorenson discusses the concept of ritual as both theology and communication, emphasizing its importance in the expression and understanding of faith within Mormon culture. And much more!
After Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought was founded by Mormons at Stanford University in 1966, it attracted Latter-day Saint scholars from all over the United States, and soon its success surpassed the expectations of…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total membership.
Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the nature of suprahuman power, the possibilities and limitations of humankind, the means by which we and the cosmos came into existence, and our ultimate fate.
Dialogue 33.2 (Summer 2001):139–173
This article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative exercise.
“Why you want to go out and sit all day on the ice just to catch a fish, I’ll never know. Ed, you’re going to freeze to death one of these days, or catch pneumonia.” …
There’s an exercise in contrasts a few blocks east of Belloni up among the Pacheco streets north of Danubio in the barrio of Piedras Blancas. Former President of the Republic Jose Batlle had a farm…
New York Times reviewer Christopher Lasch, reviewing Erik Erikson’s psychobiography of Mahatma Gandhi in 1969, wrote: “Erikson understands that to reduce illustrious men to their symptoms explains everything except the one thing that most needs…
Winner of the 1999 “Best Biography Award” from the Mormon History Association, Fawn McKay Brodie measures up to the honor. A biographer commonly finds varied reasons for selecting his or her subject. Newell Bringhurst candidly…
In the century since twenty-five year-old David Oman McKay made his last formal entry in his missionary diary in Glasgow, Scotland, Mor monism has metamorphosed from a small religious group centered in Utah’s Wasatch Front…
Scott R. Christensen has made an auspicious entry into the realm of Mormon history with his book Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887. Already the volume has won the 1999 Evans Handcart Prize and the…
Paul Gutjahr, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University, has written an elegant and engaging study of “The Good Book” in America. Readers of An American Bible: A History of the Good…
Years ago, I visit-taught a single mother of three young boys whose grasp of Mormon doctrine seemed patchy, at best. Our so-called “les sons”—punctuated by frequent smoking breaks—were seldom more than lively recitations regarding her…
Few first novels in Utah in the last three decades have earned the popularity and notoriety of Dancing Naked. When Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner did a “pre-publication” reading from the book at the Writers@Work conference…
