The Birth of Mormon Hymnody
April 26, 2018[…] of Thee Are Spoken,” by John Newton; “He Died! the Great Redeemer Died” and “Joy to the World” by Isaac Watts; and “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah,” translated by Robert Robinson. William Wines […]
[…] of Thee Are Spoken,” by John Newton; “He Died! the Great Redeemer Died” and “Joy to the World” by Isaac Watts; and “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah,” translated by Robert Robinson. William Wines […]
[…] to expand” his limited materials “into the necessary importance by finding their place and meaning in the world at large. … ” She went on to say that “As a writer and as a […]
[…] but as times go no man can be counted learned unless he is styled ‘Doctor.’ If the world is to believe in me, I must put on the lion’s skin. I have to fight […]
[…] they were called) prepared the ground for the deists of the Enlightenment. In time a radically different world-view emerged from their writings: the mechanical universe governed by immutable natural laws, the transcendent God removed […]
[…] relating my year’s learning to family and friends in the Church. My attitudes were those of another world, and the bottom line, the underlying assumption behind any exchange of views with fellow Mormons, was […]
Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 13–21 The editors of Dialogue in 1979 compiled the testimonies of a former slave, Samuel Chambers, who was a member of the church.
[…] suggest, Mormonism’s version of the hero journey, of the historical and psychical or myth-historical view of a world and people ever growing. I would be almost willing to say that this motif is an […]
[…] in a state of “‘permanent revolution’ or metanoia which does not come to an end in this world, this life, or this time,”[9] then a member of the Mormon Church is guaranteed that right—or […]
One is hopeful, upon reading Elder McConkie’s preface to his latest volume on the dealings of Christ with mankind, that new ground may be broken for Mormons in the recognition of modern findings and […]
They were of the old people, two sisters With their measured tones and gunny sack Of nickels, dimes, and quarters To take out and polish when they met,