M. Gerald Bradford

M. GERALD BRADFORD is currently executive associate of the Western Center of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a lecturer in social sciences. Formerly he was administrative director of the Robert Maynard Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also taught Religious Studies.

Articles

Letters to the Editor

The Loss of Transcendence: Reflections on the Contemporary Religious Crisis | Thomas F. O’Dea, Alienation, Atheism, and the Religious Crisis, and Thomas F. O’Dea, The Catholic Crisis

The word “crisis” usually signifies a crucial point or situation in the course or history of something. It implies an unstable condition in a certain state of affairs in which an abrupt and decisive change…

Response to Freud and Jung

The two figures cleverly depicted on the cover of the Autumn, 1978 cover of Dialogue are unquestionably among the most important individuals in the field of psychoanalysis. Both were trained in the medical profession and both considered their research and theoretical work to be scientifically grounded.

The Case for the New Mormon History: Thomas G. Alexander and His Critics

My overwhelming first impression of Thomas G. Alexander’s “Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective” published in DIALOGUE (Fall 1986) is that the author, in the words of a character in a recent…