[…] it is said, will not subordinate rationalism to other ways of knowing, such as authoritarianism or mysticism.[ 6] But “good Mormons” will do so, for that is a part of their being good Mormons. […]
[…] Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes in ancient America had […]
Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 73–76 Church members, from some General Authorities to some Sunday School teachers, are generally impressed with and concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist […]
[…] fail our neighbor. This temptation is perhaps the most subtle of all those Satan gives us. We buy too expensively, believing we are justified through love of beauty, and then our re sources are […]
For the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giving the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as […]
[…] each of their academic disciplines. Up until about two years ago, city dwellers in Poland could even buy Time or News week right from their newsstands under a cultural agreement with the United States. […]
[…] the conclusions are obvious, Nibley has not made a special effort to call attention to them (why buy trouble?), and it is with some reluctance that I do so. The mood among some Mormons […]
[…] California: the author, 1969. Baker, Pearl. Trail on the Water. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1969? $ 6.95. Biography of Bert Loper. Barlow, Israel Family Association. Family Recordings of Nauvoo — 1845 and Before. Salt […]
[…] brothers, and my father and I had been very close. Even before I was old enough to buy a license for anything or even shoot, he took me hunting. He helped me make my […]
[…] has suggested, by the Nauvoo period Mormons had withdrawn far enough from conventional society to innovate freely.[ 6] While still perceptibly inhibited, in Nauvoo Joseph could teach principles that he had previously kept to […]