Unquestioning belief rather than critical self-examination has always been the Mormon style. Breaking with this tradition, a group of young Mormon intellectuals, all of whom went to either Harvard or Stanford, have brought out Dialogue, a learned quarterly dedicated to the proposition that the faith of the Latter-day Saints is compatible with reasoned inquiry.
The first unabashedly highbrow publication in Mormon history, Dialogue* gets no financial support from the church, is designed to keep intelligent, educated Mormons who might otherwise fall by the wayside within the community of Saints. Its tone contrasts sharply...