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May 30, 2024[…] will insure a sup ply of “coal” for much better “fires” in the future. Reflections on the Writing of Mormon History Klaus J. Hansen This afternoon, in the privacy of my hotel room, it […]
[…] will insure a sup ply of “coal” for much better “fires” in the future. Reflections on the Writing of Mormon History Klaus J. Hansen This afternoon, in the privacy of my hotel room, it […]
[…] the Church might hope to gain from it, unless it be one into the kind of tendentious historical writing that has been characteristic of so many of those outside the Church. . . . Another feature […]
[…] the Savior and serve a mission. It came to a head about six months later: I was writing in my journal and started the sentence: “I want to serve . . .” Then I stopped. For a […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 17–32
But the experience of women as women, their wilderness crescent,
is unshared with men—utterly other—and therefore to men, unnatural.
[…] of authority will not seem unusual to faithful, informed, educated members of the Church. But in the writing of history this criterion of salvation is rarely cited as an important explanation of the origins […]
[…] certainly one of Foner’s heroes in the episode, say the same thing I said. For example, Foner reviews the major points made by Judge Hilton before the Board of Pardons. Note this sentence: “The […]
[…] the implications of a cosmology, “treating the entire expression of the period as a single body of writing and paying little or no attention to modifications forced upon the mind by domestic events.” Even […]
[…] of the eastern papers, they are rather exercised over your admission among the cadets & one correspondent writing from this City to the N.Y. Herald, wants to know, “Will the boys permit the outrage;” […]
[…] provincial, so totally unfamiliar with twentieth-century scholarship, industry, and the desire for professional advancement which powers our writing. He would be insensitive to a new temper among Mormons and a new purpose, not so […]
[…] by John H. Gardner, the teacher’s supplement for the 1967 Gospel Doctrine Course, “The Gospel in the Service of Man,” expresses essentially the same position. He quotes the manual as saying: “the eternal intelligence […]