Our understanding of the American past has been greatly enriched in recent years by studies which have made use of literary sources. Few works, for example, surpass the challenging insights and interpretations of Henry […]
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[…] R. Blonquist, an attorney retained by a group of Coalville citizens, sought and obtained a temporary restraining order barring demolition on the grounds of Church doctrine. He argued that the Church decision-making process had […]
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[…] the Relief Society, a Young Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association was organized in 1869 to promote habits of order, thrift, industry, and charity. Realizing the high responsibilities resting on them, the young ladies said, “We […]
[…] to Bush, Hugh Nibley argues that it is God who chooses who he wants to ordain and who should be denied due to various reasons, hence the scripture “Many are called, but few are chosen.”
[…] an America in miniature” to the idea that the Mormons bear a distinct culture of the same order as Navaho or Zuni Indians. At the same time Mormon views of their own life cover […]
[…] sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented to be ignored, his concepts of evolution1 by natural selection have been hotly debated now for well over a century.
<i>Dialogue 9.3 (1974): 21–37</i><br> Duane Jeffrey is to be thanked for his article, “Seers, Savants and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface.” It is an excellent summary of the history of thought on evolution in the […]
[…] separate, gain additional meaning and impact when read as a group, and they are arranged roughly in order of the advancing age of the protagonists. The stories have little action in the usual sense, […]