[…] prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the early converts to the […]
[…] give them a second thought or, if we did think about them again, it would be this: writing and reflecting in comfort far away, hoping that the “seeds” we planted might, in some unsure […]
[…] and Susan Staker. Bushman, who is working on a new biography of Joseph Smith, points in his essay to the centrality of unconventional, unlearned translation in Joseph’s understanding of his prophetic role. (This idea […]
[…] 1914, future Apostle John A. Widtsoe published his popular and enduring A Rational Theology, which continued in service as an instructional manual for decades. In 1931, Apostle James E. Talmage went so far as […]
[…] in external public policy is a different issue, and that is presumably the main concern of Quinn’s essay. That issue, in turn, breaks down into several others. First, is the church entitled to intervene […]
[…] fishes in the upper right hand corner. Now, as G. B. Shaw has shown, a possible phonetic writing for “fish” in English is “gh” as in enough, rough; “o” as in women, “i ” […]
[…] commitment to unfettered scientific inquiry but firmly anchored in his religious faith. Talmage wrote the eighty-page title essay in 1935 as a text for the Mutual Improvement Association in the halcyon days when individuals […]
[…] are tall, nut producing pines whose trunks rise up high from the earth and then burst at the top like fireworks with long branches that arch toward the sky and terminate in large green pompoms.
[…] for what can be called “Mormon Studies,” they apply equally as well to others. In this introductory paper, I mention first my own involvement in LDS studies, then consider the role of conferences, and […]
This is an essay in speculative theology. In it I explore an idea—the general Mormon expectation of future polygamy—that has important religious and moral implications but about which there is little definite scriptural direction […]