[…] 43–73</i><br> Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented […]
[…] public health programs. It resounds to our own day in attempts to keep unproven therapies on the market. Despite the death from smallpox shortly thereafter of an Apostle and his wife—the only members on […]
[…] world. Within months after assuming his presidency, he embarked on a series of world tours, much as Pope John Paul of today‘s Catholic Church has done, visiting places and lands where the Church remained strong…
[…] thus declared a fixity of species, that they were unchangeable entities each descended from a specific Edenic stock, by whose analysis one caught a glimpse of the Creator at work. But the concept was […]
[…] Multiple Perspectives on a Changing Denomination (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993); Arthur Emery Farnsley II, Southern Baptist Politics: Authority and Power in the Restructuring of an American Denomination (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, […]
<i>Dialogue 38.4 (Winter 2006):45–82</i><br>the original text, unfortunately, no longer exists on this earth, and we are left only with the assurances of a “translator” that the testimony contained in the record is “true,” although […]
<i>Dialogue 40.1 (Spring 2007): 83–136</i><br>Watson explains how the secret marriage of Louis J. Barlow to a 15-year-old girl caused a major rift among fundamentalists. Today’s fundamentalist members are still experiencing the effects of that marriage.
[…] has a strong authority structure. Power seemingly originates at the center of the Church, with the prophet and apostles, and radiates outward from there. This system of authority developed in the context of the […]
[…] Kauss, Linda. “Church Shapes Up Its Members.” Phoenix Arizona Gazette. September 10, 1977, p. A7. Law and Politics Becker, Elizabeth, and Donald P. Baker. “Mormon Temple Weddings Prompt Bill to Alter Rules.” Washington Post. […]
[…] human creativity in response to the divine lure. Joseph also used his seer stone for what we today would consider secular purposes; but the most important purpose of his instruments was to open the […]