The doctrine of Heavenly Mother has long been invoked by Mormon women and Mormon feminists to posit an expanded view of gender in Mormon cosmology and offer women a tangible representation of their eternal […]
[…] Saints paved their own path in establishing a distinct culture. The practice of polygamy, belief in theocracy, and other unique principles marginalized the faith throughout the nineteenth century, only to give way to a […]
Elizabeth Fenton, Brian Hauglid and Michael Austin each review Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William Davis Continue Reading »
[…] how one chooses to resolve the issues surrounding its origins, one must conclude that the Book of Mormon’s theological arguments should be seen as designed to be read and understood by its early nineteenth-century audience.
[…] is unaware of the timing of his coming: “And now we only wait to hear the joyful news declared unto us by the mouth of angels, of his coming; for the time cometh, we […]
[…] that reproduce sexually, a species exists when any pair of individuals within the group have the s ame chance of begetting fertile offspring. Biologists delight in distinguishing species that are so close in form […]
[…] terrority to serve in various positions. For the most part, these Gentiles weren’t sympathetic towards the church, and one of the more famous outsiders is Chief Justice James B. McKean who tried to crack […]
[…] culture of the Hebrew patriarchs in mid-nineteenth-century America. The minutes of the conference appeared as a Deseret News Extra for September 14, 1852, and were reprinted as a Supplement to Volume 15 of The […]
[…] 21.4 (Winter 1990): 114–121
Lehr discussed the journey undertaken by Charles O. Card to move to Canada and preserve polygamy, before the First Manifesto during a time that members were being hunted down for […]
Dialogue 25.4 (Winter 1992): 81–96A history of ethnic wards and branches as the church struggled with integration vs. segregation of immigrant communities.