[…] bellum ordering of law and religion was abandoned for the order we know and take for granted today, a world of limited local sovereignty and federally regulated religious conduct. In short, Gordon has used […]
[…] George Q. Cannon in 1884, he “still betrayed ‘a German twang.’” The Whitmers derived from Pennsylvania German stock. In fact, the first European-language translation of the Bible published in America (even before English) was […]
<i>Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108</i><br> A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully […]
[…] let crazies be bishops? Would this strain our relationship even more? Fortunately, I underestimated my mother. The news of the bishop’s suicide struck a deep chord of compassion in her. We had the first […]
[…] on the spot, and the treasure had been under his charge ever since. (Italics added.) Treasure-Guardian Spirits A stock character in the theater and lore of money-digging is the treasure guardian spirit. The spirit might […]
[…] of belief; it is the tale of a free spirit butting heads with a tightly disciplined institution; and it is the record of a family spiritual legacy, one noticeably different in beliefs and loyalties […]
[…] We went to the University of Utah to listen to Harold Bloom preview his forthcoming book, The American Religion. Bloom said Joseph Smith’s “religious genius” enabled him to cut through Christianity and on back […]
[…] from 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.
[…] to reflect on several lessons we learned from our first (but not our last) encounter with practical politics. Lesson 1. Our commitment to be “anxiously engaged in a good cause” is not without its […]
<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106</i><br> Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were […]