Even with the explosion of scholarly interest in Mormonism over the past fifteen years, students of American religion still wait for a systematic and synthetic treatment of the development of Mormon theology. Central to […]
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[…] me like green semaphores.” So do they in her poems. In “Writing Copy” the grotesque in the news floods into a real day and “the sheepish guy in the parking/ terrace who waits in […]
July twenty-third in the canyon is almost like hell-fire—sulfurous hot waves off the powdery earth while the children play in the trees,
One late afternoon just before sunset, the Prophet with white hair like the mane of a lion was walking by the sea with his friend, Fernando. They walked and talked about many things as […]
now that I’m old and know it I begin to glimpse the endless line
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[…] wife had clapped a shirt over her chest, was asking him didn’t he care if the whole world saw her bare. No, he did not. But he didn’t say. He went out. He went […]
[…] theologian [and] his commitment to the worth of scientific knowledge” mark his work as bringing to the world a serious “inquiring into the nature and meaning of Mormonism” (xxiii-xxv). Paul focuses on Roberts’s views […]