Objectivity and History
April 17, 2018[…] evidence? What are good reasons? And is science as rational as people used to think? (Hacking 198 3, 1). Another way of describing this crisis has to do with “scientific realism.” Here we might […]
[…] evidence? What are good reasons? And is science as rational as people used to think? (Hacking 198 3, 1). Another way of describing this crisis has to do with “scientific realism.” Here we might […]
These were the words of Brigham Young to his Mormon followers at the first Sunday services held at Winter Quarters on a wind-swept rise of land on the west side of the city’s proposed […]
[…] questionnaire to all of its then-2,300 subscribers plus 600 who had let their subscriptions lapse in the previous year. At that point, the journal had been edited in Salt Lake City for exactly two years.
[…] ambiguity: God’s patience with what clearly seems to be Gideon’s sign-seeking using bedewed and dry fleeces (Judges 6) and his seeming impatience with the quite natural question of Zacharias in the temple about his […]
[…] in equal measure … . The transparent surfaces of Juanita’s unhurried prose play, as in Willa Cather, over unsuspected depths” (Mulder 1984). A few reviewers had reservations. One was unhappy that the account brought […]
[…] letters would have been destroyed.” When a new Spanish-speaking branch (Oakland Sixth) was created in August 198 3, many people, including Branch President Ray Barnes, wondered whether the stake were taking a step backward. […]
[…] the death of his first wife (p. 34); and later Brigham’s assertion while serving a mission to Canada that “women should not govern me” (p. 36), a rather revealing statement in light of his […]
[…] .. . a polytheistic nightmare of garbled doctrine draped with the garment of Christian terminology” (Martin 19 65,198). Mormons themselves are less likely to talk about distinctive doctrines than about healthy lifestyles. They present […]
[…] a first edition of the Book of Mormon. Within weeks, Hofmann brought him one, inscribed by the buyer’s wife’s third great-grandfather. Steven Christensen and his employee Brent Metcalfe actually made up a list of […]
[…] I suppose that any Jewish or Christian practice that subordinates women to men justifies itself through Genesis 3:16: “Your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.” Have we not […]