[…] one subject in Miss Walker’s class that I hated. I would sit there, in Drawing period, peeking over Virginia Shelley’s shoulder to see how she was doing her drawing, and then I would try […]
[…] secular treatment of religious history. Those aspects of religious history that were properly religious and hence contr oversial, even emotional and unprovable, were quietly ignored in order to write about such things as changes […]
[…] of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Evidence that the Nauvoo Relief Society filled more needs than c overing a few backs was the involvement of approximately 1,300 women in its activities. But the original […]
[…] a ceremony. It would have to proceed with propriety and order.” (p. 78) A similar, if less overtly violent, motion of the soul informs “Road to Damascus,” in which Paul, a farmer married to […]
[…] commands, while the men who delighted the lower ranks, i.e. the leaders, got reprimands. Leaders are m overs and shakers, original, inventive, unpredictable, imaginative, full of surprises that discomfit the enemy in war and […]
Sterling M. McMurrin has been a leading philosopher and educator for many years. Among his publications pertaining to the philosophy of religion are Religion, Reason, and Truth (1982) and The Theological Foundations of the […]
[…] when Joseph Smith ordained two men, Jesse Gause and Sidney Rigdon, to be his counselors in presiding over the Church with its few hundred members. It is this jurisdiction over the whole membership of […]
[…] comprising the second category of short errors, are for the most part obvious translation difficulties. E “power over the flesh” (1 Ne. 22:23) becomes OG zeitliche Macht (“temporal power”). E “kingdom of heaven” (Alma […]
Dialogue 16 .4 (Winter 1983): 74 – 90
This paper attempts to throw some new light on the history of this Mormon connected Egyptiana since 1848 (the close of the Mormon era […]
[…] the former owners retained controlling interest in the mine, but the Californians, apparently through highly placed g overnment connections, compromised with the Eureka Hill company owners and saved the Bullion Beck mine from threatened […]