Getting Everything Wrong (Even What He Gets Right)
September 27, 2011[…] as those of Fawn Brodie and John L. Brooke here) became part of “a theology of New World abundance” (p. 35). The Book of Mormon can, of course, be read in all sorts of […]
[…] as those of Fawn Brodie and John L. Brooke here) became part of “a theology of New World abundance” (p. 35). The Book of Mormon can, of course, be read in all sorts of […]
[…] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has shepherded the text through translation into 109 world languages from Afrikaans to Zulu, with more on the way.1 All of this and other […]
[…] Smith’s early career. Since the 1980s Hoffman forgeries and then Michael Quinn’s Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview, and others, folk magic was a big topic. This paper looks at three phases of the […]
[…] in Your Sister in the Gospel, providing a fresh perspective on Mormonism from the view of an African American convert in the nineteenth century. Jane’s perspective, Newell argues, shows a form of Mormonism focused on […]
[…] Lehi’s descendants into refugees, forcibly displacing those they had not already killed from their ancestral lands, then breaking treaty after treaty whenever they coveted the latest place of Native American resettlement. Eventually the Native […]
[…] essays in this volume were brought together to facilitate engagement between scholars of “early Mormonism and early American religious and literary history” (ix). With a designedly inter- or transdisciplinary ambition, Envisioning Scripture assembles the […]
[…] are those who are disconnected from the basic relationships that give persons a secure place in the world. The most vulnerable strangers are detached from family, community, church, work, and polity. . . . […]
[…] the descendants of an Israelite family who left Jerusalem around 600 B.C.E. to come to the New World. According to the book’s story, this family not only kept a record of their history, which, […]
[…] even preside over some type of Mormon ecumenical council composed of intellectuals within the Church. Then the world would be treated to the spectacle of Mormons debating basic principles in the vain attempt to […]
[…] clear and explicit pronouncements and decisions that come to grips with the imperious truths of the contemporary world. It must be resolved not because we desire to conform, or because we want to atone […]