[…] Canyons of Grace might be read as playing variations on either that tension between wildness and divine order (Jacob 5 also employs it in the Book of Mormon) or that religious psychology. “The Shriveprice” begins […]
[…] “lost faith in the old parties and their methods” and sought to protest against “the prevailing political order and its institutions.” For the next several years, he was active in the Safford Socialist local […]
[…] feels the necessity of including together under the same form a great number of analogous objects in order that He may think about them more easily. For man it is completely otherwise. If the […]
Early in the 1950s, President David O. McKay took forthright steps to move the largely domestic church into the international world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world […]
[…] that future discoveries or better analysis will show that both versions are saying the same thing: the order of creation in Genesis 1 follows the broad outlines of the scientific version; the “days” are […]
[…] implications of modern science for Mormon theology, a short review of some recent scientific developments is in order. It is, of course, impossible in this limited space to completely explore these discoveries, but I […]
[…] but also at the core of law. In a society such as ours that aspires to balance order and freedom through established processes, law both institutionalizes and facilitates changes in the way we view ourselves […]
<i>Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60</i><br> Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
<i>Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55</i><br>In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
Mormonism, America’s unique religious manifestation, has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction […]