[…] the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non -Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard characterization, a “medieval”, anachronism. On the Mormon side, […]
[…] of Nyssa suggested that “in the power of God’s fore knowledge .. . all the fullness of human nature had pre–existence (and to this the prophetic writing bears witness, which says that God ‘knoweth […]
[…] temporal existence of this earth was very short, only a few thousand years; that there was no human life on this earth prior to Adam; that the so called pre–Adamite finds of science were […]
[…] Mario S. De Pillis is recalling our attention to the historical study of Mormonism’s origins, understood as human actions in time and space and interpreted as a constitutive part of the American pilgrimage. Such […]
[…] person; he relies on the tests of “prove all things” and “by their fruits” because he regards no human authority as infallible. The Iron Rod sees some human authorities—prophets, scriptures and inner promptings—as sufficiently re […]
[…] of wife and mother. Indeed they promise that a righteous woman will be totally fulfilled within these designated spheres where in some manner, she even shares, partakes of, or otherwise participates in the priesthood. […]
[…] for caps, gowns, and hoods,” in the United States. Before that there were no rules. You could design your own; and that liberty goes as far back as these fixings can be traced. The […]
[…] of art, beauty, and their place in the kingdom with greater clarity than he, despite his well -known and sometimes confusing tendencies toward hyperbole. Young’s teachings are best approached with an awareness of his […]
[…] function it invests in its object. .. . In his illusion of having found the absolute and super human, the fanatic believes himself to be in possession of the truth, which confers upon him omniscience, […]
[…] the Tanners have repeatedly demanded that Mor monism live up to standards of rectitude impossible for any human organization to achieve or else give up its truth claims. On the other hand, the Tanners […]