[…] external imposition, shifting the locus of authority away from the power of the story itself (the “good news”) and toward an authority spawned by the partially artificial holiness suffusing our culturally created notion of […]
[…] his gift to his followers (see, e.g., Edward Stevenson to the Editor, 30 Nov. 1881, Deseret Evening News 15 ). Shipps, “Prophet Puzzle,” 19. That Smith’s mission of saving souls went beyond the usual […]
[…] asserts that God has absolute control over our destiny and through his church total control over our world. Lutheranism leaves us some choices with some non-religious worldly controls. Catholicism di vides the controls separating […]
[…] the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved “from status to contract.” […]
[…] sin.” This one caught me off guard. “Sure ain’t much like a book, is it?” Front page news it was. Who could have driven away leaving the woman on the ground and her child—four […]
[…] of the immanence of God in human affairs that the apparently pointless evil and injustice in the world can be handled by the valid assertion that God’s ways are not man’s ways. He is […]
[…] of Mormon Thought.” For many of us old enough to have watched it, that launch was a world-turning event, more adventurous even than Apollo. The tumult and euphoria in the early letters is palpable, […]
[…] whispering attendants to my lifelong dialogues with Joseph. I had to remind myself that I see the world differently than I did forty years ago. I’d come on a long and tortured journey. Until […]
[…] nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this conflict in a detached or academic way because it is […]
<i>Dialogue 36.3 (Fall 2003): 159–175</i><br> In this paper I will explore official and unofficial messages that theLDS church has sent to girls and women about childbearing during the twentieth century and the effect those […]