Volume 39, No. 3
Fall 2006
The Fall 2006 issue begins with "The Prophet Elias Puzzle" by Samuel Brown, which looks at the doctrine behind the Prophets Elijah and Elias, as well as how Joseph Smith and other former church leaders saw and characterized the two. This is followed by "To Set in Order the House of God: The Search for the Elusive "One Mighty and Strong" by Bill Shepard, looks at how past church leaders viewed the scriptural reference to the "one mighty and strong" as well as how the views differ between the different branch offs of Mormonism. After this is another article about the "one mighty and strong" by Brian C. Hales, specifically looking at the impact John T. Clark and the fundamentalist movement had on the doctrine. Also included in this issue are several works of art, a reflection on forty years of Dialogue, and a wide variety of poetry to choose from.
Contents
Articles/Essays
Fiction
The Siege of Troy
Hugo N. OlaizDo not expect, Hera, to know all my thoughts, even though you are my wife. What I find fitting to reveal, no god or man will know before you. But beware of finding out what…
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Heloise and Abelard
Coby Fletcher“We’ll get there by ten.” Nod and look behind, dance a quickstep ahead of the noise of a thousand feet on the wet pavement of Liege. Feels strange to be thrown into a world you’re…
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Letters to the Editor
Poetry
Response
Response to Earl M. Wunderli’s “Critique of Alma 36 as an Extended Chiasm”
Boyd F. EdwardsDialogue 39.3 (Fall 2007):188–206
Others, including Wunderli, hold that the proposed chiasms in the
Book of Mormon are not deliberate applications of the chiastic form and
ascribe their chiastic structure to the ingenuity of the analyst, rather than
to the intent of the author.
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