Who Came in Second?
April 16, 2018[…] prepared by Richard L. Evans, A Century of Mor monism in Great Britain (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1937), repeats the Kimball account. So does the sesquicentennial history by V. Ben Bloxham, James […]
[…] prepared by Richard L. Evans, A Century of Mor monism in Great Britain (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1937), repeats the Kimball account. So does the sesquicentennial history by V. Ben Bloxham, James […]
[…] (especially religious dogmatism) grow in the land. And here is Paul, who brought Christianity to the western world, speaking the same words. “Prove all things”: consider all things; look at all possibilities; examine your […]
[…] Heart, mind, and spirit are uplifted by Greaves’s story of Professor Jacob Milgrom’s blessings, in Hebrew and English, for the benefit of a student departing from the class by reason of illness. Intellectual debates […]
[…] most fundamental kind of reality, as opposed to the “shadows” that humankind dealt with in the temporal world. Plato implied that the soul existed before entering the body and that, if it properly purified […]
[…] includes a handy timeline as well as important analysis: “Mormon women did not become feminists because they read The Feminine Mystique or subscribed to Ms magazine. They became feminists as new ideas, filtered through […]
Blair Hodges brings his years of reviewing experience to Dialogue in a new section devoted to Book Reviews of interest to Dialogue readers. He shares insights and opinions about recent Mormon-flavored books ranging from theology to history to memoir to biography and more.
Click in to explore some of his recent ones including a look at Joanna Brooks’ new memoir (“This brings me to what I understand to be the heart of the matter, especially for Mormon readers of Brooks’s book: the tension between personal and institutional revelation; or, questions of authority.”) as well as two offerings from the new Salt Press (…we all come to the text with various preconceptions, hopes, fears, and experiences which help determine what we get out of our reading. These particular (peculiar?) volumes encourage us as readers, above all, to pay close attention to what we bring to the text.)
And that’s just a taste of what’s to come so bookmark Dialogue’s new Book Reviews (found in the menu above) and check back often.
[…] and Moving West Schisms and Sects: Challenges to Polygamy Missions and Expansion: From New York to the World Exploration and Conquest: Migration, Deseret, and Utah The Modern Age: A Manifesto and Statehood CHAPTER THREE: […]
Title: Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader Author: Stephen C. Taysom Publisher: Signature Books Genre: Religious Studies Year: 2011 Pages: 500 Binding: Softcover ISBN13: 978-1-56085-212-4 Price: $28.95 Back when he was a doctoral student […]
[…] etc.), but despite accepting them she remains unimpressed by them. For the most part she offers sympathetic readings of aspects of Joseph’s history, such as the conversation Joseph had with his friends on the […]
[…] A guest post from Mike Austin. Mike is Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, a member of the Dialogue Board of Directors, and a […]