[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] similar to those in the writings that he had received. On July 16, 1930, he received a writing in which the voice identified itself as the “Elias who should come in the last days.” […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] gospels; it is colored by the specific polemical situations in which the apostle Paul found himself in writing his epistles. Extreme care must be exercised in using this fragmentary and difficult evidence. Particular care […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and Loetsher 2:328). One cannot help but wonder why the very God who protected the process of writing withdrew his watch care during the translation and transmission process. The Princeton position seems to be […]
[…] across cultural boundaries and from age to age. This concept of “the folk,” which, unfortunately, some historians writing about Joseph Smith’s magical practices still adhere to, is both outdated and misleading, and any research […]
[…] in the business world. Interestingly, the leftist or proletarian chords of the era are muted in the writing of all these young people, although there is a kind of protest in McKay’s feminist references […]
[…] missionaries,” has been funding an enormous program in various countries of medical, agricultural, technical, educational, and social service programs of all kinds. These efforts are in dispensable to the eventual establishment of the church […]