[…] of Elijah.” This interpretation requires us not only to perform temple ordinances as a means to save humanity in the next life but also to focus on the dire need for confronting and reversing […]
[…] of grand first general conference report in which the life mission of Jesus of Nazareth, with its human contexts and conflicts, its personalities and parables, its trials and ambiguities and quiet human moments, is […]
[…] the Book of Mormon. Then Roberts analyzed the internal evidence that the Book of Mormon was of human origin, and in his most devastating conclusion concerning the accounts of three anti–Christs in Nephite America, […]
[…] explained the loss of the manuscript and the solution to translate different plates so that the devil’s designs to thwart the work would be negated. (This preface was removed in the 1837 edition, apparently […]
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This essay explores conflicting messages within LDS teaching on LGBT rights, when it both opposed same -sex marriage and in the wake of Prop 8 also came out in support of other LGBT […]
Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106
Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub -fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content […]
[…] 116). He saw fidelity as central to married love, which he portrayed as the supreme form of human happiness and wholeness at the end of each of his comedies and the violation or interruption […]
[…] impotence, I nevertheless remember John Ciardi’s definition of a bad poem as one that “either misplaces its human sympathies” or has such gross “technical incompetencies” as to be unacceptable. Herein lies the problem. Some […]
[…] has always implied a suitability of environment which negates mere dimensional adequacy as the primary factor in design. When environment created for religious purposes fails to provoke the desired emotional response from the participant, […]
[…] What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.” How open and pious have Latter–day Saint scholars been in searching for […]