<i>Dialogue 54.1 (Spring 2021): 1–16</i><br> Essentially, the debate becomes whether it is appropriate to apply the adjectives “gay,” “homosexual,” “transgender,” or similar terms to persons who lived before these terms had any meaning. Yale […]
Klaus J. Hansen’s review of Doyle L. Fitzpatrick’s The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island King in the Spring 1971 Dialogue is the latest manifestation of a currently […]
[…] many people in my field had rejected even a belief in a deity and conceived of the world from an extremely mechanistic, stimulus-response point of view. Was I being intellectually honest? Did I have […]
[…] the Bishop of Woolwich, Dr. John A. T. Robinson. The work attempts to re-establish contact with the world and to relocate the sense of holiness in a secular society. Bishop Robinson’s point of departure […]
[…] two reasons for this phenomenon: a larger than average proportion of citizens very recently from the Old World, where they were in the habit of visiting galleries, and the fact that these citizens were […]
[…] the argument can be formulated as saying: since we find certain characteristics in man (or in the world), we ought to act in a certain way. All such arguments I claim involve a suppressed […]
[…] implicitly, with a predictably positive flourish: In the twentieth century the Church became, in a real sense, world-wide, as its membership spread beyond the isolation of the Intermountain West, and as other historical forces […]
[…] for a thesis topic, began to read “Mormon novels.” It seems odd to remember how electrifying were the “forbidden” Vardis Fisher and others I hadn’t heard of: Scowcroft, Whipple, Robertson, Blanche Cannon, even Samuel […]
While it is true that there has been no substantial literary tradition among the Mormons, there are indications that one is beginning. For the first time there is a sufficient number of Mormon scholars […]
[…] generation at least, a sort of ghetto. Until television came, they were unbelievably cut off from the world. But even if the people do know more of the outside, their religious beliefs reinforce habit. […]