[…] Figures 5-8 in Facsimile 1) “could indeed ‘represent this earth in its four quarters’ in the ancient world, as the explanation to the facsimile in the Book of Abraham says.” As far as ancient […]
[…] fundamentalisms; whether the community is American fundamentalist Protestant, Iraqi Shi’ite, the Jewish Gush Emunim, Sinhalese Buddhist, all share the task of: “Selective retrieval, embellishment, and/or construction of ‘essentials’ or ‘fundamentals’ of a religious tradition […]
[…] reprinted in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1905; repr. Deseret News Press, 1950), 97-101; cf. Bennett, History of the Saints, 241-50; F. […]
[…] enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world’s record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected. Bush’s futuristic “trails” […]
[…] this assignment, child? I mean, Sarah the first has near half a billion real children populating the world she and Abraham made together, with well over a billion spirit kids just waiting to go. […]
[…] like the elders did. A few days after our baptism, Allen and Johnson came by with the news that they had rented a house where they could live and hold meetings. Mother asked them […]
[…] 2002 Winter Olympics,” submitted to House Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, 19 Feb. 1997. “It’s Party Time,” U.S. News & World Report, 12 Jan. 1998. American Academy of Actuaries, Issue Brief, Fall 1997. See “Rostenkowski […]
[…] while she sewed or baked. He helped her know when to turn her fields, and brought her news from town. His wife sent with him recipes and sometimes freshly baked pies or biscuits, so […]
[…] chapters in which each author takes turns explaining his own position. Every chapter begins with an author breaking up his discussion into four sections: (1) what his own religious tradition believes about the particular […]
[…] beginning to assume the mantle of an intellectual. I was changing in the way I viewed the world. In the summer of 1969, while working on a Master’s degree at the University of Utah, […]