[…] Stanely, and Peter B. Bloom (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001), 52; Graham F. Wagstaff, et al., “Facilitating Memory With Hypnosis, Focused Meditation, and Eye Closure,” International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 49–76
What of the Latter Day Saint movement that claimed to prophetically discern the times and seasons of these latter days and also boldly proclaimed that they were the restoration church?
[…] inadvertence. I did read a lot about paranoia when I was writing about Joseph Smith because Bernard De Voto had called Joseph Smith a paranoid, and I felt that he did not follow the […]
This study seeks to look analytically at the reorganization of sex roles and sexual expression in three of the most controversial religious movements of nineteenth-century America—the Shakers, who practiced celibacy; the Mormons, who introduced a…
There is no exaltation in the kingdom of God without the fulness of the priesthood. . . . Every man who is faithful and will receive these [temple] ordinances and blessings obtains a fulness of…
[…] existed. In Peru and Ecuador, the only places that had something similar to a draft animal, the llama, the “roads” were generally stepped footpaths, unusable for wheeled vehicles. Since we cannot disprove that which […]
[…] Arrington, “Centrifugal Tendencies in Mormon History,” in Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate, Jr., eds., et al., To the Glory of God: Mormon Essays on Great Issues (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, […]
Currently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines the Godhead as consisting of three separate and distinct personages or Gods: Elohim, or God the Father; Jehovah, or Jesus Christ, the Son of God both…
[…] that is somewhat obscure. There is no competent manuscript authority for reading 3, on which the KJV de pends. This mistaken reading arose when Desiderius Erasmus, the sixteenth century Dutch scholar, misunderstood a comment […]
The attitude of nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints toward lawyers and the legal process is well documented and has been widely discussed ever since Joseph Smith studied law hoping to be admitted to the bar. What has…