Eugene England

“Haglund’s analysis truly shines when she places England in context with other thinkers… The most powerful parts of Haglund’s work are when she demonstrates how England lived during a transition moment for Mormonism.” –By Common Consent “Haglund’s brief, elegant study brings back the restless personality of the late Eugene England, one of Mormonism’s most energetic thinkers and intellectuals, wrestling with the tensions between independent thought and loyal belief. This book illuminates an entire era in Mormon intellectual history.”–Claudia L. Bushman, author of Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America “Eugene England was the most gifted Latter-day Saint essayist of the late twentieth century, influencing an entire generation of thinkers and strivers. In Kristine Haglund’s deft handling, we also come to appreciate England as embodying the paradoxes and tensions of modern religion: liberal and conservative, faith and reason, individual and community, autonomy and authority. This book will enable a whole new generation to rediscover the wisdom and wrestle of one of twentieth-century Mormonism’s most remarkable souls and intellects.”–Patrick Q. Mason, Utah State University

Kristine L. Haglund is a writer, editor, and independent scholar, and the former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.