[…] did more to formulate the Mormon idea of God, the religious basis of polygamy (polygyny), the pre -existence of spirits, the doctrine of the gathering, the resurrection, and eternal salvation than any other person […]
[…] power is “the eye of investigation” by which man “may see and recognize the truth,” for “each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God,” so that he […]
We can imagine ourselves visiting Aunt Rachel Grant, long -time president of the Thirteenth Ward Relief Society and one of the Mormon Church’s “leading ladies,” at her home on Salt Lake City’s Second East […]
[…] tended to be Mormon hagiographies filled with uplifting trials and triumphs but rarely plumbing the depths of human frailties and contradictions. Fox directly and often by implication portrays a brilliant, complex man. Throughout the […]
[…] Tanner?” “Well enough for an old man,” he responded. I wanted to shout my fury at a human fate which so cripples the housing of a still productive mind, to proclaim my anger that […]
[…] members in 1830 to over five million by 1982. Its capacity to govern and manage an ever -enlarging membership has helped assure its survival yet its administrative structure, flexible enough to pro vide for […]
[…] under Brigham Young, by the late nineteenth century, leadership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints had become traditional. Leaders no longer functioned outside acknowledged lines of authority but operated with […]
[…] unity, and above all, joy. Surely his certain assurance that these conditions were real and lasting in human experience and would one day prevail gave him and the early Saints courage to face difficult […]
[…] W. W. Phelps designated William “the Patriarchal Jacob’s Staff.” And B. H. Roberts, impressed with the seventy -year–old William in 1881, said he had “so vindicated the claims and the character of his brother […]
[…] of whom have equal authority to give blessings; that patriarchs only bless the “fatherless” (those without worthy priesthood -bearing fathers); and that the presiding rights of the Patriarch to the Church are limited to presiding […]