[…] Pratt handles his escape similarly well. He has the rhetorical skill to interrupt his own story in order to get his “friends all safely out”; and these interpolated vignettes and the account of his […]
[…] of American religions endures. Its very multiplicity is the condition of its harmony. Things unique—doctrine, discipline, worship, order, polity, piety, etc.—abide the de facto forfeiture of universality by a device that is simple and […]
<i>Dialogue 1.2 (Summer 1966): 72–79</i><br>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 […]
[…] third of the book one shuttles back and forth in the period since the Civil War in order to cover a variety of topics ranging from missions and religious cults to movements toward Christian […]
[…] the perfect society which he and his associates were building would become the headquarters of the millennial order. That being so, all work done, great or small, was of value as contributing to the […]
[…] and the territorial period as a whole is warm, understanding, and friendly. His account of the United Order is more favorable than most present-day Mormons would have written. Whenever Stegner touches on the attempted […]
[…] the artist and his religion, we must recognize that in a sense Chaucer risked his salvation in order to create his marvelous art. We must recognize also that from our standpoint, and his, it […]
[…] eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away. (21:3, 4) The descending city is described as “having the glory of God, […]
[…] it can only end in something less than truth. To circumscribe our vision of what is in order to favor what should be may be a well-meaning lie, but it is still a lie. […]
[…] man’s own and can be replaced. But his genes and his basic nature belong to a higher order. They are not man’s to smash or assail. The Church, I have had reason to hope, […]