[…] and dissection of the more sophisticated American Puritans, can fail to respect them and to see a human plausibility in their thinking. The main peril of Miller’s approach is that he may sometimes take […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
Stephen Taggart has attempted in Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins to show that the present Mormon Negro policy is “a historical anachronism—an unfortunate and embarrassing survival of a once expedient institutional practice” […]
“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 […]
[…] history of Mormonism still has vital import for readers and authors. This quest may lend a deeper human meaning to Mormon history for Mormons, but what about non–Mormons? Do they read about Mormons as […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that for the present at least it was the Lord’s will that the Saints continue to oppose human law and that they contract and live in plural marriage relationships. So strong was his and […]