<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15 -year–old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of […]
[…] critical acclaim, establishing Brodie’s career as a biographer. Nevertheless, the biggest natural market for a scholarly bio of the Prophet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, was much more restrained.
[…] Mormon point of view, such a step is theologically consistent because Hitler was, despite his atrocities, a human being like everyone else. Others have been shocked that Mormons consider such a person worthy of […]
[…] that God is infallible, so the objection goes, Church doctrine is always and necessarily mediated through fallible human beings. Given its fallibility, Church doctrine cannot operate as an authority. The argument for the fallibility […]
[…] written a Gospel. The story gave the delight of reading Twain, but more so—like the delight of human love, but different. We do not normally think of God as tickling us until we break […]
[…] killed hundreds of soldiers. There were scenes of bodies and burnt–out vehicles. One, eerily, showed a charred human carcass, helmet still in place, hanging from a window strut of an incinerated bus. They said […]