[…] pushed Elder Pratt to a public recantation in 1865. Then he published the recantation in the Deseret News, along with a denunciation of specific absolutistic doctrines of Elder Pratt, signed by the First Presidency. […]
[…] Brigham Young University. Perhaps President Hinckley was responding to the phenome non described in a 1995 BYU News article titled “Mission before Marriage Becoming Acceptable for Women” which cited that 60% of BYU students […]
[…] and place. One notable exception to the generally impressionistic studies of particular charismatic individuals is the path- breaking study, Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities by psychologist Len Oakes. The book uses […]
[…] Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo ritual system. On the other hand, this meant defining themselves against the Brighamites by breaking their silence on plural marriage. In addition to their own internal anxieties over plural marriage, which […]
[…] there would be no inequality in wealth or standard of living and hence no reason to “ share.” What the moochers have in mind is not sharing at all. What they really mean is […]
[…] in or committed to the Church. I concur with statements attributed to George Romney (New York Times News Service) that Udall knows that this is not the way to bring about the change that […]
[…] to hear that the mystery in his possession can be revealed through God’s prepared intervention in the world, and he derides the inferior knowledge of men, which is limited precisely because “they will not […]
[…] plates in a room at the Smith home, four at one time and four at another (Deseret News, Aug. 14, 1878). This report is uncorroborated, however; nor was it approved by Whitmer before his […]
[…] I was entering the building, another teacher passed me and said, somewhat excitedly, “Have you heard the news? Blacks can have the priesthood.” Something in the way he said it made me think he […]
[…] for teaching doctrine and principle “by study, and also by faith.” The next year, Joseph was studying English grammar, avidly and ably, and was teaching it at the School. Early in 1835, he superimposed […]