[…] mirror (captoptromancy) was employed. K. Illness Illness was thought to be caused in some cases by the breaking of taboos. Confession of sin was believed to bring about a cure of illness. L. Snake […]
[…] concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist and Church member, I am singularly unconcerned about such studies — in fact, when it comes to such matters, I am […]
[…] can do after such fear in an effort to keep himself unspotted from the things of the world is to read only the antiseptic Era and the bowdlerized Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. This puritanism […]
[…] accepts it as divine writ or not. Joseph Smith’s involvement with the pre-European past of the New World continued to be strong, long after 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published. In 1834, […]
[…] are led by a First Presidency and a Quorum of Twelve Apostles. They are both engaged in world-wide missionary work. The LDS (Mormons) have become more numerous, but the RLDS have ranged more widely, […]
[…] nonconformists in England had been perse cuted. When asked if religion could ever be a justification for breaking a criminal law, Taylor replied that it could in a country that had a constitutional guarantee […]
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[…] who it really was, what its focus was, and what its core ministry and identity in the world were. Greg: Is it fair to say that, in that first century, you had a few […]
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[…] University of Vienna, regarded at the time as the premier intellectual center of Europe, and perhaps the world. It was in Professor Erich Voegelin’s sociology of religion seminar that Bennion first encountered Weber’s thought. Voegelin, […]