In his article on the quest for authority in early Mormonism, Mario De Pillis contends that “the question of the historical origins of Mormonism must ever remain central” in any exchange between Mormons and non-Mormons.…
Dialogue 1.2 (Summer 1966): 72–79
In this important article in one of the earliest Dialogue issues, Keller says “I went because I was frankly worried: worried that my wife and children should find me slipping after talking intense brotherhood, worried that the church members I led and taught should know where the doctrine but not the action in life is, worried that the students I counseled and read and philosophized with where I taught should reach for meaning for their lives and find no guts, worried in fact that I should somehow while propagating and preaching the Kingdom of God miss it, miss it altogether. The rest was nonsense.”
Paul Tillich,[1] the well-known German-American Protestant philosophical theologian, died on October 23, 1965, at the age of seventy-nine. I experienced a deep sense of personal loss upon hearing of his death. The man with whose…
When the Savior said it, it seemed simple enough — to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.”[1] But when the demands of Caesar’s world encroach…
It seems curious to ask, “What support has the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints given to the visual arts in Utah?” One would hardly consider as fields for fruitful exploration Baptist support of…
One might say of Mormonism, as the Apostle Paul said of Christianity in his testimony before King Agrippa, “This thing was not done in a corner.” Before the Book of Mormon was off the press,…
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use . . . Henry James. The Aspern Papers History is bunk. Henry Ford The books, periodicals, and manuscripts listed in bibliographies are of little value…
The Mormon who reads a text on the sociology of religion such as this one by Thomas F. O’Dea of Columbia University, formerly of the University of Utah, will better appreciate the book if he…
In a sense this review can be termed an attempt to make much of fairly little, for the amount of space devoted to Mormonism in each of these works is very small — six pages…
For those interested in expanding our understanding of the phenomena of Mormonism and of Judaism, the appearance of Glanz’s Jew and Mormon should have constituted an event of some significance. Students of the history of…