[…] are led by a First Presidency and a Quorum of Twelve Apostles. They are both engaged in world-wide missionary work. The LDS (Mormons) have become more numerous, but the RLDS have ranged more widely, […]
[…] concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist and Church member, I am singularly unconcerned about such studies — in fact, when it comes to such matters, I am […]
[…] mirror (captoptromancy) was employed. K. Illness Illness was thought to be caused in some cases by the breaking of taboos. Confession of sin was believed to bring about a cure of illness. L. Snake […]
[…] the truth it contains and the divine efficacy of that truth, and not from sensuous involvement in worlds created by words. In addition, our puritan condemnations have become a kind of paranoia about literature. […]
[…] accepts it as divine writ or not. Joseph Smith’s involvement with the pre-European past of the New World continued to be strong, long after 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published. In 1834, […]
[…] brother Brigham is satisfied with it, I am.” I do not wish any Latter-day Saint in this world, nor in heaven, to be satisfied with anything I do, unless the Spirit of the Lord […]
[…] that the sisters never intended to be read publicly not only opens the door to the little-known world of feminine relationships between Mormon and non-Mormon kin but also enables us to understand the historical […]
[…] 82–83; see also Gyatso, Apparitions of Self, 173, 194–97). Elsewhere, Gyatso explains this as facilitating the “ breaking of codes (brda grol), here a metaphor for the loosening of the psychic knots that bind […]
[…] is a product of a modern American mind. Meanwhile the apologists find numerous parallels with the ancient world and conclude that the book could only have originated with ancient peoples. One often feels that […]
[…] it with the period of church history from the time of Christ to the end of the world. Since the church was the antitype of Israel, it fulfilled all Old Testament prophecies of Israel’s […]