[…] Hatch expresses a firm conviction that such a book is needed because “there are some practices of human origin which ap pear to be theologically sound and which may be considered as obstacles to […]
[…] a committed son of the Church, he is also a fine student of science and of the humanities. By disposition and by training his mind is open. His desire for confirmation did not carry […]
[…] is not a prominent character and lust one of the ingredients of the plot. . . . Human nature loves to coast along the borders of infamy and crime. Open vulgarity and obscenity are […]
[…] profundity of its ideas, for the grace and power of its language, for its insights into the human condition. Its merits otherwise, whether as history or as fiction designed to be read as history, […]
[…] faith and championing spiritual values—and with exposing and opposing selfishness, materialism, shallowness, and all things harmful to human personality or destructive in human relationships.” Such questions of character and morality are about all that […]
[…] an unawareness of being hampered in any way.” Djilas stated that it is “the concrete form of human and social existence.” Its pur pose, as he defined it, seemed to reflect an awareness of […]
[…] of their own making. From the beginning, authors projected onto the hapless Saints the great mosaic of human hopes and terrors which occupied mid-nineteenth-century minds. Like a mirror, the Latter-day Saints of fiction reflected […]
[…] imagination. Something of universal cosmic significance was at stake. When historians began to write, the salvation of humanity was really the issue. How could our nineteenth-century Mormon help but feel that the modern works, […]
“Sources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1839-48” at Southern Illinois University, is a collection of documents (most of which are on microfilm), which was assembled by Stanley B. Kimball, who also published an annotated catalog…
Puritanism began as a covenant theology. Those who held to its fundamental principles up into the seventeenth century, when it dominated men’s lives in Europe and especially in New England, believed that the foremost of…