[…] cycle” or “routinization of charisma.” According to this theory, a religious sect begins with a “charismatic” event—a breaking-in to history of something thrilling but uncontainable, like miraculous divine power or invisible gold plates. But […]
[…] smile when she calls me hermana, her “sister.” Her reference to me signifies a dual meaning: I am not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among […]
[…] — the one denoting strictly an ecclesiastical body, the other a political organization intended to prepare the world for a literal, political government of Christ during the Millennium — originated with Joseph Smith, who […]
[…] the purpose and significance of their mission: The Saints in Turkey, as in other parts of the world, have a strong desire to gather with their co-religionists, but as it is understood that emigration […]
[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] are some of the things on which the foundation rests secure. 1. Joseph Smith came before the world with a “scenario,” arresting, original, satisfying. Because of that alone he couldn’t lose. Consider: he had […]
[…] you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand.” By inspired strategem—the confusion caused by smashing lamps and breaking pitchers—rather than by Israelite superiority in armaments or animals of war, or numbers of fighting men, […]
[…] who it really was, what its focus was, and what its core ministry and identity in the world were. Greg: Is it fair to say that, in that first century, you had a few […]
[…] Joseph Smith No Man Knows My History, to D. Michael Quinn’s 1987 Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Joseph Smith’s involvement with magic has been well documented. Even the respected Mormon historian Richard […]
[…] nonconformists in England had been perse cuted. When asked if religion could ever be a justification for breaking a criminal law, Taylor replied that it could in a country that had a constitutional guarantee […]