[…] than I ever have. Aside from my reverence for them as prophets and empathy for them as human beings, my perspective as a historian does not place me in a position to judge these […]
[…] added information never previously recorded. When Wilford Woodruff acceded to the presidency, Thatcher’s opinion had placed “ human smartness and business ability as above that simplicity of character and susceptibility to divine impressions” notable […]
[…] education, physical education, and family education, they “should also be concerned with the skill so indispensable to human growth—the art and power of prayer” (Senate 1982, 68). Others expressed concern that school prayer is […]
[…] for “faithful fiction” as well as faithful history—for ex amination of Mormon experience without avoiding either its human frustrations or its godly raptures. Thayer and Marshall, in their novels, as well as most of […]
[…] son, Carl. I taught during these years at BYU as well: introductory sociology, social problems, cultural anthropology, human ecology, social statistics, race relations, and courtship and marriage. After three years of teaching and a […]
[…] “allegorical,” a representation of the rela tionship between Christ and the Church rather than a celebration of human sexual love. It may well be both. Again, I’m reluctant to call it pornographic, though it […]
[…] to language, the scientific approaches which Westerners have developed over the past centuries to describe various activities— human, ani mal, geological, or cosmic—are often further impediments to knowledge and understanding of the mystical path, […]
[…] has great knowledge, and is the very embodiment of goodness; but God cannot prevent all evils and human travails. People are eternally necessary beings with inherent freedom that is a part of their eternal […]
[…] that Mormonism is fair game for examination and that “Mormon history and culture can be studied in human or naturalistic terms—indeed must be so studied.” But Rischin added significantly that Mormon historians believed this […]
[…] rather than in the more contingent and finite terms used by Joseph Smith; (2) a redefinition of human nature in the pessimistic terms associated with the traditional dogmas of original sin and human depravity, […]