[…] occasional presence of homosexual behavior. In addition. many animals are bisexual or ambisexual. Can we blame crowded city life for homosexuality? More than one cultural anthropologist has written about experimental homosexuality among farm boys, […]
“The question of the ultimate origin of a purported revelation,” writes Grant Un derwood, “is ultimately beyond the scope of academic analysis.” Professor of religious studies James D. Tabor concurs: “We can evaluate what […]
[…] should be considered “chloroform in print.” In the eighteenth century there was a controversy over the authenti city of a collection of prose poems called The Poems of Ossian, which James Macpherson had written […]
Di alogue 43.1 (Spring 2010): 1–36
And in fact, what might it mean that God “used” evolution tocreate life’s diversity? Was this a choice for God among other al-ternatives? Do Wildman’s pessimistic conclusions hold for […]
[…] three installments of the Age of Reason in France, but he published the third in New York City, and compendium editions were reprinted there too into the 1820s. Matthew 27:51b–53 was among the numerous […]
[…] information about the translation procedure than any other person. In 1887 he published a booklet in Richmond, Missouri, entitled An Address to All Believers in Christ, which includes this detailed description: I will now […]
[…] the Smith family in bringing forth the Book of Mormon. I soon discovered that a campfire surroun ded by twelve-to-eighteenyear-old boys was not the place for profound statements about the doctrines of the priesthood […]
[…] yearning, to confront the challenges which would be placed before him. He was ready to be ma de a deacon. The young Brazilian branch president standing beside him reviewed for the congregation the importance […]
[…] this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the mo dern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that it has become an […]
[…] sophisticated irony that comes from “glossing” a deadly serious situation (Pratt has just broke jail at Colombia, Missouri) in highly rhetorical terms; and the leisurely sense of the value of style for its own […]