[…] 1, 1968, Church News entitled “BYU Gets Rare Books” described items of early Mormon interest recently purchased for Brig ham Young University. What did the BYU Library buy and where did the money come […]
[…] about law and order, I think it wise to get perspective on our objectivity. Thusly, I offer for consideration this statement: “The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are with students […]
[…] and all the other qualities of intelligence.” As a result, Utah was poor “in everything that makes for civilization.” “Who ever heard,” he asked, “of a Utah painter, a Utah sculptor, a Utah novelist, […]
[…] Nationalists into an inevitable clash over the territory of Palestine. To the de voted Zionist, who has for centuries dreamed of a Jewish revival, there can be no state of Israel outside of Palestine. […]
[…] In fact, the publication of such books seems to be the sine qua non of belligerent status for the candidates. Thus, the pre-convention publication of T. George Harris’ biography, Romney’s Way, confirmed the seriousness […]
[…] Saints are concerned. Still, non-believers do not read the Book of Mormon as they read the Bible, for the profundity of its ideas, for the grace and power of its language, for its insights […]
[…] and Roy Lambert’s High Uintas – Hi! (1964). There are biographies and historical novels and an in formal combination of the two which amounts to a kind of family memoir novel. Samuel W. Taylor’s […]
[…] certain problems which a Mormon must cope with in teaching any secular literature. What does he do, for example, with a literary work which expresses ideas and attitudes in opposition to his theology? What […]
[…] Church toward universalism is represented not so much by its missionary expansion as by its building “ foreign” temples, not by any change in doctrine, but by a change in disposition. The Church has […]
[…] to assess the current scholarly literature on the Mormons in Illinois, or on Mormon history in general for that matter, he would probably be perplexed. While compelled to admit that the studies are informative […]