[…] in the meanings of the words “cyclical,” “revolution,” “catastrophism” and “creationism” were altogether ignored, however, in the English edition of his seminal Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1812) translated by the Scottish […]
[…] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century 1, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), 2: 49. CHC 2: 69. Earlier he had been involved in efforts to establish […]
[…] the interpretation he applied, was corroborated by the 1850 census. Utah’s death rate was 21 per tho usand, nearly 50% higher than the national average and second only to Louisiana among all reporting states […]
[…] be, they still leave unanswered questions and issues for the future, particularly as Mormonism becomes an increasingly international church. To encourage the members to seek “competent medical help” can mean different things in different […]
In this era of the “Women’s Movement,” scholars are looking for documentation to rectify past neglects, and women in general are looking for “roots” and role models. There is a searching of materials by, for…
[…] Utah’s Branch Libraries in Great Britain.” Local Population Studies 21 (Autumn 1978): 55-58. Wright, Raymond S. “An International Center for the Study of the Family.” Journal of Family History 2 (Summer 1977): 169-71. Geography […]
[…] record of the book of Mormon. But at all times he remains on a journey or a search. Further on, in the Book of Omni, we find Mosiah discovering another important group of people […]
[…] she met and married Frederick Sorensen, also of Utah-Danish heritage. Sorensen was working toward his Ph.D. in English and philosophy at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She graduated from BYU the same day […]
[…] much from the West (which had some Mormon Country of its own) as from Back East. Practical English and sturdy Scandinavians had come to Utah by the path the sun used every day. And […]
I have visited this spot before—in my youth, in art, in my thoughts—so often that it has become cliche. The grove, a ripe symbol extending back through time and myth, has become too ripe in…