Dialogue Lectures #28 w/Jared Hickman
May 2, 2016[…] Hickman speaks on his essay “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” which was published in American Literature, a literary journal published by Duke University Press.
[…] Hickman speaks on his essay “The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse,” which was published in American Literature, a literary journal published by Duke University Press.
[…] and security within modernity. They also served as a response to paranoid theories that Mormons and Native Americans would conspire to thwart more normative American settlement in the West. Mentioned throughout the text, Native […]
[…] premonitions (and many other things). However, as the LDS Church began to seek accommodation with the wider American public, church leaders began to minimize the apocalyptic predictions and spiritual experiences of the laity and […]
[…] 26.3 (Fall 1993): 119–140
In fall 1993, TJ O’Brian wrote, “You are Not Alone: A Please for Underst anding the Homosexual Condition.” O’Brian was a gay man and this esay addresses how church members should […]
[…] majority of wards and branches throughout the Church. For which I’m grateful-and not because I don’t like politics in Church. The truth is, I think Mormon Church life would actually be improved if our […]
[…] qualified for faculty appointments and (2) no course content could be “sectarian in religion or partisan in politics.” College credit was continuing at some institute programs twenty-five years later, suggesting the ongoing significance of […]
[…] David to the captivity of the tribes) can have descendants that span large populations of entire continents today. Population geneticists have looked at migration patterns, inbreeding coefficients, and family size, and calculated that it […]
[…] (Summer 1995):163–180
FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed in ancient history
Dialogue 16.2 (Summer 1983): 39–45
This paper examines Isaiah’s prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — […]
[…] noteworthy because, instead of laying out the original historical meaning of Isaiah, it reapplies the text to the time of Joseph Smith and to the course of Jewish and Christian history up to his time.