A Survey of Current Literature
May 4, 2018[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] its adherents to think for themselves, and quotes William J. Whalen’s The Latter-day Saints in the Modern World (which he depends on heavily as “the best book on the Mormons”) to the effect that […]
[…] In every field modern culture has produced revolutionary changes: atomic fission, vehicles to explore space, the spectacular world of synthetics, recent medical wonders that prolong life and eliminate crippling diseases, cures for both mental […]
Dialogue 3.1 (Spring 1970): 42–45 No one will want to deny that the Book of Mormon has been a book of considerable impact and importance in America, insofar as it has affected the lives […]
[…] For our pioneer ancestors, worship was not a running away or withdrawal from the battles of the world; neither was it an ostrich-like refusal to look problems in the face. They could not, even […]
[…] This term, coined by Harvey Cox, expresses (in “secular”) a “this worldness”—meaning that the work of the world must be done by man himself, and (in “city”) all historical and Utopian dreams for the […]
Dialogue 4.3 (Fall 1971): 42–45 It is tempting, of course, to redress the Book’s limited literary impress by recourse to history, sociology, psychology, and demonology. It is tempting to say that a hundred and […]
[…] of the number and/or spacing of children. This is a widespread practice today, especially in the western world, and most population specialists argue that considerably greater control of this sort is urgently needed if […]
Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 78–86 Responding to Bush, Eugene England compared the story of Abraham which is uncomfortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has […]
[…] are, I believe, a few which may be especially appropriate for Latter-day Saints beginning to explore the world of Bible scholarship, since they are reasonably sound without demanding the technical background required to wade […]
[…] good person engages our admiration, but rarely our understanding. An aura of mystery colors the typical Mormon world. A boy raised on the streets learns early the harsh realities of life. He has no […]