[…] as many scholarly disputes about its date, nature, and meaning as this astonishing piece of high poetry.[ 6] The piece has no fully conclusive date or life-setting: scholars generally date it to the period […]
[…] by the English Department where eager fans bought the book in triplicate to give away at Christmas. For days afterward, students and faculty at WSU talked about how amazing, riveting and, above all, daring […]
[…] monism were interesting and comforting, but as a doctrine, as a belief system, I just never could buy it” (85). For these folks, living the LDS lifestyle was not the core issue. Even among […]
[…] tracts just as word came that the United States had gone to war with Spain. On April 6, 1898, he noted in his diary, “McKinley’s message will mean war [with Spain],” and added, “I […]
[…] down the hole and get it over with. They’d joked about being old men and having to buy a power auger. Ed drilled a hole six inches into the ice and left the auger […]
[…] The rush of a robbery was cheaper than wine, and with the money he stole he could buy cigarettes and alcohol anyway. I imagine him breaking those fine things he couldn’t sell and spitting […]
[…] source, but it certainly does not in itself prove that the one is derived from the other.[ 6] This is not to say that parallels are not useful in the exposition of a text, […]
[…] parts of the world. Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America. In 1971 there were only 217 ,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church’s total […]
[…] addressed by the fifteen essays in this book, the eighth in Signature Books’s Essays on Mormonism series. Over a quarter of a century ago, non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps called upon her colleagues to work […]
[…] publisher is closely connected with Signature Books. [2] FARMS Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6.2 (1994): 122-33. Bushman sugges that the mild tone of the book shows that Marquardt, not Walters, […]