George D. Smith

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

DIALOGUE: On Monday, November 27, 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented a number of documents to President N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency, who accepted them on behalf of…

Opposition in All Things | Constantin Costa-Gavras, dir., and Franco Solinas, A State of Siege

At the time that Costa-Gavras’ new film, A State of Siege was cancelled at the American Film Institute’s inaugural festival at its new movie theater in Washington’s Kennedy Center, it was described as “rationalizing political…

Moral Tales for Our Times | Eric Rohmer, dir., Chloe in the Afternoon

Chloe is the last and one of the most evocative of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.” The previous stories include La Collectioneuse, My Night at Maud’s, Clair’s Knee, and two shorter works for television.  These…

The Negro Doctrine — An Afterview

On June 8, 1978, word of a revelation to President Spencer W. Kimball and the ruling councils abruptly removed one of Mormonism’s more uncomfortable teachings and relegated it to the archives. As we bade farewell…

Isaiah Updated

Dialogue 16.2 (Summer 1983): 39–45
This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of years later.

“Is There Any Way to Escape These Difficulties?”: The Book of Mormon Studies of B.H. Roberts

Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105
In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts fam￾ily gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young Uni￾versity. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be pub￾lished this year by the University of Illinois Press.4

Humanity or Divinity? | Martin Scorsese, dir., The Last Temptation of Christ

Outside the San Francisco theater where we saw The Last Temptation of Christ, Christians paraded with guitars, bullhorns, sandwich boards, and placards (some in Cantonese) protesting the blasphemous portrayal of their Lord and Savior. Anti-semitic…

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

Dialogue 27.1(Spring 1994): 1–72
Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.

Editing William Clayton and the Politics of Mormon History

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

George Smith Responds