[…] of God. No other work of literature has presented the Mormon story more forcefully to the non-Mormon world. Not surprisingly, however, Mormons have never made a cult of Vardis Fisher. Reared a Mormon, Fisher […]
[…] never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world. Emerson, “Of Friendship,” Essays. Over a year ago this column called attention to three new journals […]
[…] and continued as a sort of universal joint between the church, its members and an increasingly secularized world. The Christian Science Monitor, to be sure, endures, but it is more a newsmagazine than a […]
[…] perspective and how this “revelation” is akin to or different from the revelations spoken of in other world religions. The following is an over simplified statement of a complex topic, but it may provide […]
[…] any traditional society under the stress of acculturation, attempting the task of, in Peter Berger’s phrase, “ world maintenance” while trying to define a new twentieth-century Mormonism within an increasingly pluralistic society. Under these […]
[…] role of ideology (belief/ doctrine) in securing full commitment. Ideological indoctrination creates a separate moral and intellectual world for the believer, which helps insulate him/her from external influences and at the same time facilitates […]
[…] arms race as part of a search for viable public myths, we are on the way to breaking out of the trap of pseudomyths held as literal facts. We take a step back from […]
[…] I’m not ashamed to own my Lord Or to defend his cause, Maintain the honor of his world, The glory of his cross. Jesus, my God, I know his name: His name is all […]
[…] . We have been blessed with much knowledge by revelation from God which, in some part, the world lacks. But there is an incomprehensibly greater part of truth which we must yet discover. Our […]
[…] story, the product of a primitive, superstitious mind, without the benefit of science to explain how the world works. History is often characterized as the opposite of myth because history deals in the scientific […]