In a 1969 review -essay entitled “The New Mormon History,” Moses Rischin spoke of the sophistication with which scholars both within and without the Mormon culture were beginning to examine the Mormon past. He […]
[…] decisions. As he later said, While still a young adult, I learned to recognize and appreciate the human fallibility in all our leaders, and thus to keep my expectations for their performance quite modest. […]
[…] 2016): 1–24</i><br> The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same -sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms sparked […]
[…] Creator, a vastly more moving and profound experience, is well within the realm of possibility for any human who chooses to seek it. I am convinced that it is through faith, sometimes by the […]
[…] wife, upon the very spot where two years before I had lived for months without seeing a human being” (31). Pratt’s longing for religious certainty, his interest in preaching, and his desire to convert […]
[…] society has fallen into a sterile ethical relativity, which threatens the worth and dignity of the whole human venture. As a “defender of the faith,” Bishop Robinson refuses to confine himself to the shrinking […]
[…] a risk of not being believed at all. The circle within which they seek to restrict the human intellect ought therefore to be carefully traced, and, beyond its verge, the mind should be left […]
[…] Mario S. De Pillis is recalling our attention to the historical study of Mormonism’s origins, understood as human actions in time and space and interpreted as a constitutive part of the American pilgrimage. Such […]
[…] the formidable obstacles which confront throse who seek to write it. There is still sensitivity among Mormons to probing that might bring embarrassment to cherished offical views of Latter -day Saint orgins, martyrs, or heroes.
Professor Stewart has given us a well -written biography of Joseph Smith. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, many of which draw their titles from key statements in Mormon literature that concern the […]