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The Development of the Mormon Concept of Grace

by Blake Ostler Originally published Spring 1991 (24:1) LATTER-DAY SAINTS may be surprised to discover that Joseph Smith did not reject the importance of grace. Indeed, he developed a profound and novel view resolving many…

Crawling out of the Primordial Soup

A Step toward the Emergence of an LDS Theology Compatible with Organic Evolution by Steven L. Peck Wesley J. Wildman, a liberal evangelical Christian, contributed this issue’s sermon as part of the ongoing “From the…

Rooted in Christian Hope: The Case for Pacifism

by Richard Sherlock As a pacifist for my entire adult life, I find the Dialogue call for papers too inviting to ignore. During the Vietnam War thirty-five years ago, I came to grips with what…

The Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints

by Leonard Arrington Originally published Spring 1969 (04:01) In one of the earliest books of imaginative literature about the American West (published in 1826), novelist-editor-missionary-biographer Timothy Flint reveals a common impression of the time that…