[…] the universe would repeat. Even Plato’s cosmology was cyclic with a periodic destruction and recreation of the world. The Jewish religion, in contrast, taught what is now termed “linear” or “progressive” history: the world […]
[…] people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch […]
[…] son, William. Joseph Smith Jr., age five, would begin growing up in a rapidly changing and contentious world. The religious landscape during this time was undergoing a remarkable shift. Between the ratification of the […]
[…] the gospel to a multitude of people. He believed that this vision would be realized in the world of spirits. He referred to this when he said that he should die before my return […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] and Ho Chi Minh. The twentieth century, the bloodiest and most war-crazed in the history of the world, has alone been responsible for combat in which “not less than 62 million civilians have perished, […]
[…] of special interest and present unique problems to those concerned with the development of Mormonism as a world religion. Many of the problems which arise in Asia are also found in other missions, but […]
[…] international gospel is increasingly lived locally by individuals trying to make sense out of a globally interconnected world. In the next century claims of an ethnic Mormon identity will continue to be made by […]
[…] Mormons are largely represented as provincial, conservative, small-minded individuals who are ill-prepared to cope with the real world—by which Kushner seems to mean about six blocks of New York City. The play’s Mormonism, on […]
[…] including Al Qaeda, and even though the Saudi government funds hundreds of Madrasa schools across the Islamic world which train hundreds of thousands of young Muslims to hate America—even so, because of its oil, […]