Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2013):188–206The scripture I have in mind, of course, is the Book of Mormon. What follows is a Gentile’s appreciation—even recommendation—of this well-known but largely unread example of worldclass scripture.
[…] even excluding Irish, not one of these can be regarded as complete; and even by fitting them all together like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, we cannot hope to reconstitute the original text […]
[…] to western New York and began participating in revivalist meetings there. As Davis ably shows, nineteenth-century preachers —even (or perhaps especially) when they spoke extemporaneously—did extensive preparation for their sermons, and they used a […]
[…] I threw up my hands, just overwhelmed by how much there had come to be out there —which is why I was thrilled when Peter son made the effort and did it better than […]
It began in such a Mormon way: with a question. I asked a single daring question of my mother, and it turned into many. The questions began on a typical Sunday night, which is […]
[…] relations with other men .” In the late 1980s, in a context of ritualized debates about homosexuality —questions of nature and nurture, sexual essentialism versus constructivism—Sedgwick contended that these debates are caused by the […]
[…] and did create the world through evolution?” (217). He shows that evolution has striking implications for theology —including LDS theology, I would add. And in fact, what might it mean that God “used” evolution […]
[…] be Knowledge (investigatable, verifiable, repeatable, etc.) and religion is taken to be Meaning (purpose, values, morality, etc.) —limited definitions and assumptions not happily accepted by either—then science may not be permitted to talk about […]
[…] out of knowledge and authority from heaven, and was anxious to finish it. He had a vision —at least in the down-to-earth sense of a “goal”—of all Saints being educated in the knowledge prerequisite […]
During the winter of 1835-1836, the Mormon leaders in Kirtland —and none more diligently than Joseph Smith—devoted much of their attention to the formal study of Hebrew, under a competent scholar who was also […]