[…] undermining of literalist biblical hermeneutics in antebellum America via the apocalyptic unveiling of the text’s own “ human conditions of scripture writing and scripture reading” (288), a “metatextual navel–gazing profoundly destabilizes its self–canonizing narrative, […]
[…] that later Church leaders would come to deny: that Jesus’s suffering in the garden was (in his humanity) in contemplation of his impending torture and crucifixion, with Lorenzo Snow making this point expressly in […]
[…] that he was isolated during some of the hardest parts of his life. He was a superb human being. In every way he was a wonderful human being and I just didn’t see any […]
Dialogue 49.2 (Summer 2016): 1–24 The November 2015 LDS handbook policy change that identified mem- bers who participate in same–sex marriages as “apostates” and forbade children in their households from receiving baby blessings or baptisms […]
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.
[…] possible origins for the translation of the Book of Mormon. It was either a divine translation, a human translation, or a machine translation. What I mean by “machine” translation is some sort of preprogrammed […]
[…] Noah that his people are beggars in the promised land, and that Jehovah will tolerate neither in humanity nor arrogance.” We should note that it also plays a role in Jesus’s sermons to the […]
Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION -MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants […]
[…] that he did not consider the least sinful; but, more importantly, it would block the progress of human inquiry. The next word of significance in the title is species, a term then synonymous with […]
[…] submit to you that the Prophet Joseph Smith in translating the Book of Mormon did a super human task,” Brown declared to his audience. “I ask you students to go out and write a […]