The “Brass Plates” and Biblical Scholarship
April 25, 2018[…] that he was not located in the territory of Judah. (It is implied in 3 Nephi 11:1 6 that Zenos and Zenock were of a Joseph tribe, although nothing is said of location.) The […]
[…] that he was not located in the territory of Judah. (It is implied in 3 Nephi 11:1 6 that Zenos and Zenock were of a Joseph tribe, although nothing is said of location.) The […]
Late in the summer of 1833 one Doctor Philastus Hurlbut, recently excommunicated from the Mormon church for “unchristianlike” conduct toward some of the sisters, learned of a manuscript written some twenty years before by […]
[…] 2024 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Nicholas Shrum delves into the symbolic and per formative power of the NCCS pocket Constitution, particularly within the context of Christian nationalism and Latter-day Saint […]
[…] Mormon exclusiveness. This is precisely what the founders of the Liberal Institute intended. By the late 18 60s, a group of intellectually disposed and liberal minded Mormons had grown increasingly dissatisfied with their faith. […]
[…] priesthood,” rather than by “persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned.” (D&C 121: 39-41) Asecond cause is insecurity. Basically a rigid or authoritarian person under threat or stress becomes even […]
[…] and as he looked back across the distance they had come, Jesse saw their long-legged shadows ripple over the uneven prairie behind them. He was weary beyond feeling. The numbness of his body was […]
[…] a very good movie. It charms audiences, me included, because Julie Andrews is such a winning per former and because Ted McCord’s photography is a constant delight to eye. But these fragmentary excellences cannot […]
[…] G. White, the founder of Seventh Day Adventism. The author, a specialist in history of medicine, disc overed an unusually close correspondence between the language of Ellen White’s Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene and […]
Mormons have always had a passion for recording the experiences that shaped their lives—their dreams, ideals, intentions and conceptions of themselves. The sheer volume of their diaries, journals and other records stagger the imagination. […]
[…] the “true dope” on the history of pre-Columbian America. And no doubt most of the faithful who buy the book will believe Dr. Cheesman’s account simply because it reinforces theories that have been taught […]