[…] September of 1842 for a final conference to honor Jedediah Grant and his brother Joshua before their de parture for Nauvoo. Although total attendance at that meeting is not known, sixty persons were there […]
[…] church with the same simple organization through which we planted the church in Iowa and Illinois and Missouri a century ago.” Later they add, setting the stage for changes in expression, if not in […]
[…] political parties because of outside pressure. Prohibition was in part the result of pressure from evangelical Protestant de nominations who thought that professed Mormon beliefs in abstinence should require Mormon opposition to all alcoholic […]
[…] and commitment” and in stable Utopian communities “the complete elimination, or at the very least the decided de-emphasis, of dyadic sexual relations provided the form of organization in which commitments would not be diverted from […]
[…] formal training during the ten days or so they spent in a mission home in Salt Lake City. Today they receive intensive language and missionary training in fourteen missionary training centers around the world, […]
[…] of the country. Widely regarded as more moderate in his demands on the government of F. W. De Klerk’s National Party than Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress has been, Buthelezi was pushing to get […]
[…] ministers, especially members of the Quorum of Seventy, began to rebel against what they perceived as a de-emphasis of Restoration distinctiveness, the very things that made the Reorganization what it was, and the resultant […]
[…] already been given in the Koran. It follows that the Islamic state is theocratic and its authority de rives ultimately from the Koran. The state authority is exercised de facto by the clergy, who […]
[…] of Mormon Thought 13 (Fall 1980): 63-78. Ibid., 71. John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1951), 149. John A. Widtsoe, “Were There Pre-Adamites?” Improvement Era 51 (May 1948): 205. Joseph […]
[…] field, include increasing reliance on: (1) uniformity of the proselyting message and how it is to be de livered by missionaries, (2) goal setting and outcome measurement by objective criteria, (3) standardized and programmatic […]