This handsome volume immediately establishes itself as the definitive work on the Morrisite movement within Mormonism. A complete study of Joseph Morris and his followers has long been needed and LeRoy Anderson has filled the…
[…] I’m sure that some of them would like the histories to be honest. But obviously some want distorted history —distorted to order. O: Is it honest to control history? M: Certainly dishonest history isn’t […]
The conflict between the God of religious worship and the god of philosophical inquiry has plagued Judeo-Christian theology since the union of Greek philosophy with Hebrew religion in the first centuries of the Christian […]
[…] that inevitably arise in theological translation. But even more important are the implications for Latter-day Saints today —issues that exceed the narrower questions arising from the translations themselves. A discussion of the origins, differences, […]
[…] County, and, especially, the author of The Prophet of Palmyra. Just as I started, however, I found a caveat in the first paragraph of the preface: this monograph was written “from a perspective that […]
The scene was written
In advance,
Rehearsed as often
As the days of waiting
Would allow.
My parents grew up conditioned toward racial prejudice —as did most Americans, including Mormons, through their generation and into part of mine. But something touched my father in his early life and grew constantly […]
[…] uniquely Mormon approaches to the history of the world and the Church that could be particularly illuminating for all humankind, he ended with a brisk challenge capped with a brilliant inversion of a classical […]
The sight of seventeen venerable women smiling confidently from the dust jacket is intimidating. I know I’d better like this book. Please let me like this book! Well, it did prove motivating. One day after […]
I guess it wasn’t really much of a river, only thirty feet wide or so where it had enough fall to ripple over the rocks. Except during the spring runoff. Then it filled and sometimes…