[…] through two friendly, obviously middle-class people in their own rural communities. Their initial attendance at an LDS service is increasingly located in a sumptious (to them) structure which reflects middle class values. But the […]
[…] novel, Laxness used as his sources two nineteenth-century Mormon journals in Icelandic. Of his interest in these writings Laxness writes: Paradise Reclaimed is based on two books written in Icelandic by Mormon authors. One […]
[…] I wish to evaluate some of the implications of her book which require close scrutiny. If one reviews the vast amount of scholarship in Mormon history since 1945 and uses this as a criteria […]
[…] receiving revelations from a supernatural source. He found certain concepts in Mormonism similar to those in the writings that he had received. On July 16, 1930, he received a writing in which the voice […]
[…] an unhappy winter among the Mormons in 1852-53 as Secretary of State of the Territory of Utah. Writing the following year about Utah and the Mormons, he characterized Mormon children as “subject to a […]
[…] gospel exposition. Forgotten is the fact that this composer of hymns all but single-handedly invented Mormon book writing. More than this, the arguments he put in print one hundred and forty years ago—although now […]
[…] attachments to any philosophical school. O: Are you interested in the recent and current hassles over the writing of Church history? M: I have read the address on the writing and teaching of Church […]
[…] The new critics challenged long held traditions as to the authorship, date, and purpose of various biblical writings. For example, they concluded that the Pentateuch was not written by Moses, but rather by several […]
Get a sneak peek at Matthew Bowman’s review of Charles R. Harrell’s “This is my Doctrine”: the development of Mormon theology that is […]
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