Many religious believers today are comfortable with the notion of an evolutionary process over many millions of years as God’s means for achieving the creation. In other words, they believe that, while God governed […]
[…] steal Church-owned horses, then wintering south of Salt Lake City. The message was “to authorize, if not order, their summary execution” (78). By mistake, assassins attacked four other travelers, badly wounding them as they […]
[…] produce things, though sometimes it is less obvious what they produce. Our messages may get lost in the ether, but that metaphor recognizes that I produced something using my computer, whatever it was that […]
When Joseph Smith’s unearthing of the “gold plates” with the mysteriously bound portion first stirred intense controversy in the regions of New York, notions of “sealed books” had already been causing upheavals in other […]
Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2012): 104–123 First, the history of the temple project will be shown from the Dutch perspective, with a discussion of some of the observable effects on the Dutch saints, one of […]
[…] temple attendance, and so on. Both Mormonism and Zen emphasize practice because this is how the symbolic order and the non-symbolic order are reconciled. That is, both traditions try to learn about less visible […]
The past year has been an outstanding one for Dialogue. I hope you have found articles that speak to you. I must admit that I often turn first to the book reviews—it is […]
[…] what follows, I will suggest that Alma 5, somewhat like Lehi’s dream, begins with an account of the forefathers (men and women) passing through a wilderness only to find a special tree and its […]
[…] understood to atone more on Calvary than Gethsemane in that case.[5] Pre-Mormon Commentary on the Bible In order to argue for LDS novelty, Christiansen downplays, even disregards, the existence of any garden atonement in […]
[…] particularly. Not particularly” (101) but posits that she created stories about her native community of Mormons in order to explore her real subject, “love” (101). He writes, “The hallmark of Sorensen’s writing . . . is […]