[…] allocation given to the Mormons. Nearly every week during 1857- 58 there was either an article, brief news item or illustration. The negative editorial stance towards the Mormons was never in doubt, as the […]
[…] proselyting an ethic all their own. Similarly, critics believe the press can deliver more thorough and believable news that show the positive dynamism of human affairs. Some virulent criticisms are overstated, yet no church […]
[…] the fierce infighting among radicals and swung to the right. He was therefore able to find a market for his writings among conservative journals like Time. During his painful Siberian exile, Fedor Dostoevskii had […]
[…] Saints,” a paper which became my first published article and for my thesis on “The Mormons in Politics, 1839-1844.” In Logan I had discovered Utah Mormonism; the next year, my problem of fitting things […]
[…] to be known as the Confessing Church). Calvinists traditionally have made more direct applications of Christianity to politics than Lutherans have. Luther’s Two Kingdom theory—that the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the […]
[…] converts, and children of converts, are young and eligible. Yet even they face a limited LDS marriage market. Many of the young women, in particular, after long and patient waiting finally marry non-members and […]
[…] Provo school into a showplace of LDS educational values. “More than any other single cause,” his successor observed, ” remarkable and relentless leadership … is the key to the present stature of Brigham Young University.”
[…] decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the telescope and […]
[…] of the Salt Lake temple constituted one of the most important events in the history of the world. Due to the sacred nature of temple dedications, the church does not grant access to the […]
[…] Faithful,” intended to evoke an image of religiously committed readers who felt free to explore the issues and frontiers of Mormon thought beyond the conventional treatments in official Church literature. The purpose of this […]