[…] thee my unworthiness, I fear for him lest he turn back to the begerly elements of the world” (8 March). After speaking in Potsdam village, 29 March 1833, to what he termed “an indecent […]
[…] corner of a room that Vermeer painted again and again, as if he might understand the whole world through one place seen completely. Then I hurried down the long hall, past the antique pianofortes, […]
[…] better and to shed light on regionalism’s influence on Mormon history. In the years between the two world wars, regionalism loomed large in American thought. Artists, novelists, poets, pundits, historians, social scientists, and the […]
This dialogue of anguished questioning and consolation has an intensely personal meaning to me. The 1980s were a decade that severely tested my faith in Heavenly Father and my commitment to the Church. Whatever […]
[…] Negative attitudes toward human sexuality can be traced back at least to Plato, who believed that the material world is a corruption of the spiritual or ideal world, and that the tangible, corporeal world is […]
[…] and essays dealing with the way men and women should behave—both within the Church and in the world at large. At varying times, these readings have evoked in me feelings of sympathy, restless ness, […]
[…] and the Profane contrasts religious man—”homo religiousus”—with rational man (1959, 15). He finds in our modern mode a world view that fails to give credence to a world charged with symbols and compares it to […]
[…] that Puritan “preparation of the heart” that had to precede communion. Here may be Mormonism’s entry into that world of contemplation marked by great devotional literature, a mood and mode that gets crowded out in […]
[…] dependent as it is on lay leadership, cannot thrive on the models and methods of the commercial world. The state of the church in Japan as elsewhere, both at present and in the future, […]
The portion of 1 John 5:7-8 highlighted in bold has long given biblical scholars pause for thought. Not just modern, “secular,” or “liberal” scholars, either. A physics professor of mine once told his […]