[…] is not without precedent: “x of Yah” is another way of expressing a superlative concept, much as English speakers might talk about a “god-awful” or “awe-ful” experience. The expansive nature of God sets the […]
[…] of our respondents claim to read half or more of each issue of Dialogue, but they don’t share it with others as frequently as respondents did in 1984. At that time, only a third […]
[…] of “us.” My material consists of more than 100 newspaper and magazine clippings, radio stories, and television news reports from around Finland. The greatest interest in the temple project was naturally displayed in the […]
[…] president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, eagerly anticipated a Republican sweep. At the news of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decisive win as the thirty-fourth American president, McKay was elated. “In my […]
[…] disclosing that I may bring a somewhat unique perspective to the Book of Mormon. I am an English professor who studies nineteenth-century American literature and religion, and I regularly teach the Book of Mormon […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] “notice of several months” for the event. The village newspaper maintained its general policy of avoiding local news (except paid advertisements), but Palmyra’s anticipation of this camp-meeting led to the front-page story on Wednesday, […]
[…] Sesqui-Centennial Times,” July 25-31, 1965. This was brought to the attention of all readers of the Deseret News Church Section the weekend of September 11, 1965. However, according to Mrs. Hess, the account had […]
[…] worked with them—the clumsy patching, gluing, and sketching came later.” B. H. Roberts, ed., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City; Deseret News Press, 1948), vol. II, p. 236.
[…] you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand.” By inspired strategem—the confusion caused by smashing lamps and breaking pitchers—rather than by Israelite superiority in armaments or animals of war, or numbers of fighting men, […]