[…] nature of Christ which led at Nicaea and Constantinople to the classical Christology. I prefer, rather, to call your attention to the fundamental impact of Greek metaphysics on the foundation idea of religion, the […]
[…] and more awkward. But I was not left totally adrift. Two weeks later I received a phone call from Mary, who was to become my confidante. It took the sensitivity of a woman going […]
For some time now, especially since World War II and the shock and guilt evoked in the Western world by the virtual extermination of the European Jews, traditional Christian views of the role of […]
[…] journey to Salt Lake City. After Utah was settled, a letter from “Box B ” or a call to serve a mission from the pulpit at general conference usually left a family feeling ambivalent. […]
[…] Andreas and Ingrid Ortlieb and other Berlin Saints, formerly part of the cloistered GDR Mormon community, are now members of stakes realigned to include Saints from both the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the […]
[…] state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the glory days of the […]
[…] next day’s breakfast, and no egg. I had learned from my short time in the city and now in my neighbors’ apartment that westerners move more slowly, but also more quietly and with distance […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 69–82</i><br>Zina, like many other early converts to Mormonism, was a child of the Second Great Awakening.
[…] to that topic alone: chapter six on the early 1930s and chapter seven on what I would call the “classical period” of church welfare from 1936 through about 1960. Chapter eight reveals in detail […]
[…] we’ve walked a long road since then, a road that has led us farther and farther away from religious discourse and Christian justification. Our reasons have been good: We didn’t want to limit or […]