[…] origin of the Book of Mormon. Following her trenchant attack on the theory its popularity quickly declined. Today nobody gives it credence. It was Brodie who insisted that Joseph Smith, not Sidney Rigdon, was […]
[…] level floor was laid to permit dancing. A cabinet organ which promised to “supersede everything in the market” was imported from the East. “For convenience of arrangement, beauty of interior finish, and acoustic properties,” […]
[…] physically” were polygamists,” and thus , by their becoming fathers to the largest number of children, the stock is improved.” History of Utah (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964), p. 384. J.E. Hickman, “The Offspring […]
[…] in priesthood meeting: “Why,” demanded one elders’ quorum president, “don’t we have mission leaders who understand our politics?” Another told me of how hard pressed he was to explain the Church’s move to his […]
[…] it will be hard, in the words of Tullis, to convince converts that “middle class American culture, politics, economics, and language are the Lord’s ideal way.” Increasingly, too, the Church will be forced to […]
[…] popular in nineteenth century Utah, this gathering was probably unaware of its eighteenth-century antecedent, the famed “Blue stocking Clubs,” which flourished in London for nearly half a century. The same spirit which had earlier […]
[…] the potential god hood of mankind), the relationship be tween secular and religious authority in economics and politics (his point of view is similar to that in his previously published Quest for Empire), Mormon […]
[…] this tribute would give Ruth the credit she deserves for this successful family. Would a young man today, planning an extensive training period toward a doctorate and a modest income as a professor, a […]
[…] from the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment of the relation between early nineteenth-century Universalism and the teachings of the Book of Mormon and subsequent revelations.
[…] South won the Civil War. Now, for some specific points. First, polygamy was not the main issue, politics was. Church and state were merged, with the church dominant. This was unpalatable to nonmembers in […]