[…] his limitations as an historian. It is the purpose of the present essay to examine his historical writings, making some judgments on their quality and hopefully arriving at a just estimate of his place […]
[…] felt this myself when I first discovered Sorensen’s work and was drawn to immerse myself in her writing for my master’s thesis. Carter quotes Linda Sillitoe who mused, “Someone like Virginia arouses hunger . . . to […]
[…] anything but, as the editor likes to say, “Buddaheads.” Religion, therefore, plays no explicit part in my reviews (though once in a review of Paint Your Wagon I did mention the Mormons), but my […]
[…] and suspicious of intellectuals. After completing his studies at the University of Chicago, Snell began researching and writing a history of ancient Israel. He began with the encouragement of Commissioner West, who planned to […]
[…] religious and scientific topics. Influential during his own lifetime, he wielded even more influence after his death. Writing for the Church’s Centennial in 1930, John Henry Evans observed: “In the first cen tury of […]
[…] thoughtful review of Mormon philosopher Adam S. Miller’s Speculative Grace to volume 1 of the Mormon Studies Review. You can subscribe to the MSR here. Miller, in turn, reviews Webb’s Jesus Christ, Eternal God. webbcover-198×300
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Dialogue is entering its Jubilee year – can you believe it’s been five decades? We have many debts to pay to our founders and all the authors, poets, and artists who have made Dialogue so special over the past fifty years. While all those people would no doubt generously forgive our debts to them in the spirit of the Jubilee, it seems to me that the best thing we can do is to pay it forward and ensure that Dialogue remains just as relevant, humane, thought-provoking, and forward-looking for the next fifty years as it has been since 1966.
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[…] Institute for Religious Scholarship and Deseret Book. Patrick Mason is the Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate College and a Mormon historian. When I first saw this was being released I kind of rolled […]
[…] pp. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 978-0-8032-7844-8. Reviewed by Eric Freeze At the last Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference, a famed historical literary figure stood for pictures and selfies next to booths piled […]
Dialogue 16.2 (Summer 1983): 39–45
This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — […]