During the first hundred years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, not too many members left their faith or were excommunicated for disbelief in the Book of Mormon. In the […]
[…] discover the location of buried treasure. While most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints in the twenty–first century know nothing of Joseph’s magical practices, there is ample evidence to […]
[…] have found no genetic research to support this expectation. Instead, studies of mtDNA (even ancient mtDNA), Y -chromosomes, and protein polymorphisms in Central American indigenous populations indicate the same Asian origins found elsewhere in […]
[…] 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.
[…] series of four distinct configurations or plans for the book’s structure, as Joseph understood it. The four -plan sequence is derived from textual analysis of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants (D&C). […]
[…] has been commonplace to see our relationships with our parents as crucial for working out our self -identity. We may completely disagree with Freud’s theories about child–parent relationships, Oedipal and otherwise, but I think […]
Dialogue 42.2 (Summer 2009): ix -xii
But when it comes to pegging Asherah as our Heavenly Mother, there are many problems which must be overcome, and Kevin Barney falls short of doing so. Barney’s proposition […]
[…] of political spin in the OldTestament. I recognize that weget really nervous when we starttalking about spin in the scrip -tures. So I do not blame anyone,including you, for not wanting to follow me there.
[…] accumulate and bother me. While I do this, I call my mother, and we have meandering catch -up–on–the–events–of–life chats. These are favorite hours in my weekend, which always end with me feeling close to […]
Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171–174 Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter–day Saints. Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter–day Saint women a trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.