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 […]
[…] (1905-06): 712–13; reprinted in Defense of the Faith and the Saints, Vol. 1 (Salt Lake City, Deseret News, 1907–1912), 310. Seamus Heaney, Poems: 1965–1975 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), 40, 49. “Solus,” […]
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[…] revised book of Nature in mind. The two books reviewed here illustrate possibilities for doing this without breaking faith with either science or religion. But they also remind us that those who have troubled […]
[…] churches which matched the new nation-states’ strengthening sense of collective identity were created. There were now new English, Dutch, Danish, Scottish churches, each with its own myth of faith and nation, and with confidence […]
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[…] and theological power. Both the first vision and the 1823 vision seem to have originated in the search for religious forgiveness. In the 1823 vision there was some initial motive on Joseph Smith’s part […]