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Volume 29, No. 4

Winter 1996

Articles/Essays

The Miracles of Jesus: Three Basic Questions for the Historian

John P. Meier

Jesus’ Dispute in the Temple and the Origin of the Eucharist

Bruce Chilton

Heaven and Hell: The Parable of the Loving Father and the Judgmental Son

Todd M. Compton

A Mosaic for a Religious Counterculture: The Bible in the Book of Mormon

Mark D. Thomas

Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1998):59–83
THE BOOK OF MORMON HAS OCCASIONALLY been portrayed as a deficient
first novel. Its characters appear flat and stereotypical; the plots and characters seem to lack moral subtlety; and so on. Should we wonder that today’s high literary circles ignore it?

Retelling the Greatest Story Ever Told: Popular Literature as Scripture in Antebellum America

Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.

Scripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion

Todd M. Compton, Paul Edwards, Steven Epperson, Mark D. Thomas, Margaret Merrill Toscano and David P. Wright

“White” of “Pure”: Five Vignettes

Douglas Campbell

Dialogue 29.4 (Winter 1996): 119–135
The Book of Mormon variously uses “white” and “pure” in the same verse in different editions. This article traces the history of those changes, who was behind them, and why.

The Fire of God: Thoughts on the Nature of Divine Witness

Vincent C. Rampton

W.H. Chamberlin and the Quest for a Mormon Theology

James M. McLachlan

Lavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile

Levi S. Peterson

Sister Dallon Gets Tattooed

Derk Koldewyn

Johnny take a walk With your sister the moon Let her pale light in To fill up your room You’ve been living underground Eating from a can You’ve been running away from what you don’t understand U2, “Mysterious Ways” Sister Alice Dallon…

Elizabeth, and Dying Wishes

Daniel Austin

All winter and into spring Charlie Sutton tended his wife as best he could. It was awkward from the start, knowing that the outcome was never really in doubt. The cancer that Bettie defeated six…