[…] is tempting, of course, to redress the Book’s limited literary impress by recourse to history, sociology, psychology, and demonology. It is tempting to say that a hundred and forty years in the literary marketplace […]
[…] it a universal, world wide one? How did human language originate? What is the origin of the American Indian? A student does not have to be very alert to detect a difference in the […]
[…] extreme forms of the Augustinian-Pelagian controversy, there is no recognition of what Chesterton once called “the good news of original sin,” the news, namely, that man is not left to his own resources but […]
[…] side issues which usually becloud this important era. When Mr. Backman turns to the complexity of the American religious scene, he covers the field with a discerning eye, stressing those religious currents which changed […]
[…] printing of those leaders’ diaries demonstrated that even the greatest Mormons had had their trials. Exchange of news between Utah and the missions showed how, in their several duties, the Saints throughout the world […]
[…] significant literary historians: Bernard DeVoto, Vardis Fisher, and Wallace Stegner. DeVoto, perhaps best remembered as a cr usader for public causes rather than as an historian, wrote so voluminously that simply to list his […]
[…] the Western Federation of Miners, who was effectually blacklisted in Salt Lake City until the tight labor market of World War II made it possible, in his declining years, for him to get his […]
[…] the “Great Beginning” and the place and origin of Time, so much the interest of theoretical physicists today. They also imply that there was a time when Gods did not exist. This insight alone […]
[…] I should stop and see what he’s all about? After all, Mona was in a gregarious mood. Today she was free from thinking about what needed to be done next. Without speaking or saying […]
[…] bust.” For a while she concentrated on her soup. Eventually she said, “Chantal came to see me today.” Arne could smell trouble, Chantal being Spud’s wife. “She also wanted me to change my brief,” […]