[…] 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 […]
[…] 2:11; Acts 10:34. Laurel Hamers, “Scientists Find Clue to Why Mitochondrial DNA Comes Only from Mom,” Science News, June 23, 2016. Search “Rasband,” at forebears.io., https://forebears.io/surnames/rasband, accessed Aug. 28, 2024. For a definition and […]
[…] fully developed, book-length treatments—particularly by authors who are not tied in knots by the polarization of US politics—to deal with a topic so complex and globally significant. It is my sense that this small […]
[…] The section concludes by pivoting from the fiery theology of nineteenth-century America to its no less flammable politics with Grant Shreve’s “Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon,” an admirable […]
[…] Territory—as well as the ways in which members sought to reconceptualize the place of religion in nineteenth-century politics. What sets Park’s book apart, however, is not the verve with which the council’s doings are […]
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[…] review-essay entitled “The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He added, “This seems only […]