[…] are, after all, built by mere men. Professor Flanders’s first main error was to present inadequately the Missouri background of the Nauvoo period. The history of Nauvoo cannot be understood without some knowledge of […]
[…] cans. In the nineteenth century the Mormon Church was all but cast out of America: its prophet-foun der ridiculed as a fraud and a charlatan, and his polygamy teachings assailed in Congress as one […]
[…] took place, when Nauvoo and other places in Illinois and Camp Far West, and other towns in Missouri were evacuated, and that strange com munity took its departure from the borders of a land […]
[…] W. Welch (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 83–98. Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ ( Missouri: By the author, 1887), 13. On Smith’s seer stone and its use before his translating the […]
[…] accumulated since the early 1840s—coupled with reasonable inferences and educated guesses—to enable a compelling, albeit tentative, i dentification. Based on the most convincing data presently available, the following men either definitely or probably married […]
It was in deed a historic moment when on Friday 9 June 1978, President Spencer W. Kimball announced, in a five-paragraph letter to all the leaders of the Church, that God “has heard our […]
[…] Junr. onjany. 17,1844,” manuscript at Research Library and Archives, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independence, Missouri, with photocopy at Historical Department, Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt […]
[…] Grandma Grant,” p. 183. HJG, An Address Delivered by Invitation Before the Chamber of Commerce, Kansas City, Missouri (Independence, Mo.; Zion’s Printing and Publishing Co., 1924?), p. 15; HJG, Press Copy Diary, 20 Aug. […]
[…] Polynesians as Lamanites. This essay will summarize Roberts’s two papers expressing concerns regarding Book of Mormon authenti city and his reasons for believing that the Church should deal with these questions. It will also […]
[…] interest in doctrinal history, or what is more properly called “historical theology.” Historical theology can be broadly defined as the study of the “classical thinking of the church in its effort through the ages […]