<i>Dialogue 48.1 (Spring 2015):169–177</i><br>In this “From the Pulpit,” Jared Hickman discussed the self -confessed weaknesses of multiple authors in the Book of Mormon, indicating that the text is not the literal word of God. […]
[…] ever have any uncertainty about our basic Ameri can principles being sound principles of good government and human development and well being. From that standpoint, I think the Church does give one an assurance […]
[…] thousands of images of Heavenly Mother in just a few years. If “religion is a projection of human ideals,” as scholar Taylor Petrey has argued, then much of Mormon art depicting God tells a […]
[…] God or venerate instead the eternal law that controls or at least guides his choices? According to human logic, then, the principles of good and evil, moral and immoral, precede the existence of God, […]
<i>Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 33–47</i><br> In this essay, I discuss this history, present evidence that Latter -day Saint men sold abortion pills in the late nineteenth century, and argue that it is likely some […]
[…] course of many years. Positions held privately by various early Mormon leaders—from pro–slavery to gradualist emancipation—theological speculation, human conflict, personal ambition, and political pressures on Mormon settlements in border and frontier states all played […]
[…] Central to Joseph’s creative energies was a profound commitment to an ideal of cosmic as well as human collaboration. His personal mode of leadership increasingly shifted from autocratic to collaborative—and that mode infused both […]
[…] need to identify with a Being of power but without such forbidding distance that his participation in human affairs is inconceivable. McMurrin has set up a dilemma for Christian theology worthy of Orson Pratt: […]
[…] a religious dimension. Tillich always sought to identify the religious dimension, the style, within every department of human culture. He considered communism, nationalism, and liberal humanism as “world religions” because they are bearers of […]
[…] pioneers in a cause, no curious in search of messages, but merely volunteers hoping that this brief human contact would assure us of our humanity and others of theirs. I wanted to feel that […]