[…] these days?) The novelty of Mormon Answer to Skepticism is its thesis that Joseph Smith was deliberately writing the Book of Mormon to uphold and defend Christianity from rationalists and deists, and in doing […]
[…] are eternal. The committee further reported that they had met several times with Roberts in attempts to get him to delete the offending chapters. He had refused and, rather, added material referring to recent […]
[…] who have not already been trained to write as children or who are not otherwise addicted to writing will be moved to do so by this book, or any book. As a text in […]
[…] genre, but it is not fully biographical either. It partakes enough of that older tradition of Mormon writing that it cannot be a completely truthful portrayal of B.H. Roberts. The best parts of this […]
Anticipation of a final curtain in the drama of existence, an “end” toward which history moves, has been a critical and persistent concept in Christian thought. Millennial expectations have flourished since the days of the…
[…] but must these be made enemies thus? Karen Lynn, in what is far and away the best essay in this book, answers this by saying: “The arts cannot be central to Mormon life no […]
[…] wards and branches they visited. Sonia trained the children intensively in English, especially in poetry and essay writing. Rick taught them math, and Sonia read to them every morning from the Book of Mormon […]
The “words of Isaiah” constitute a body of some of the greatest religious literature in existence, both in an aesthetic and a spiritual sense. As Monte S. Nyman correctly points out in his introductory chapter,…
The vast majority of the books considered in the accompanying compilation are of a biographical, fictional, doctrinal or inspirational nature. While the biographies and works on local history are generally intended for a rather limited…
[…] Exponent II, Vol. 1 (July, 1974), p. 2. This interest in evidenced by the recent surge in writing about Mother in Heaven. Papers dealing with the subject have been presented at the last two […]