Our understanding of the American past has been greatly enriched in recent years by studies which have made use of literary sources. Few works, for example, surpass the challenging insights and interpretations of Henry […]
[…] Genealogical Library,” Chattanooga News-Free Press. February 16, 1977. Cattau, Daniel. “To Mormons, Root-Tracing is Serious Business.” Omaha World-Herald. June 12, 1977, p. 7B. Crispell, Rhoda. “Tracing Roots to Brigham Young (and 1000 A.D.).” Poughkeepsie […]
[…] no intention of practicing polygamy, but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it. —Anthony Maitland Stenhouse So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation […]
[…] and to believe that conflicts like the American Civil War resulted in a more just and free world. That is, war, as terrible a force as it always is, sometimes is worth the toll it […]
[…] ideological war, a spiritual war,” to raise their defenses against the perceived growing dangers of the outside world that threatened to displace the home and diminish traditional authority. He likened members to an army […]
[…] deceived, and there is no red wheelbarrow there. Maybe someone painted one on the window and I am confused, or maybe I am lying mad in a hospital bed and dreaming. Perhaps it is […]
[…] occurring in the RLDS Church indicate that the Church as represented by that institution is in apostasy.” Breaking with the lineage tradition for the Church president, which occurred in 1996 when W. Grant McMurray […]
[…] I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be just what the so-called Christian world expects us all to be—neither man nor woman, merely immortal beings having received the resurrection Joseph […]
[…] cycle” or “routinization of charisma.” According to this theory, a religious sect begins with a “charismatic” event—a breaking-in to history of something thrilling but uncontainable, like miraculous divine power or invisible gold plates. But […]
<i>Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35</i><br> This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and […]