[…] poor understanding of Greek.) The term “original sin” was first used by Augustine in his early work, De deversis quaestionibus ad siplicianum (Williams 1927, 327). Augustine held that all persons were seminally present (“in whom […]
[…] or preventing grace as inconsistent with free will. The Articles and Covenants of the Church emphasized that al though persons become justified or sanctified by grace, they must per severe in works of love. […]
Nerved sparks, the Perseids tonight, wincing out over Loafer Father, you taught me to name these — each streak of fire
[…] of Christianity out of that event. Taken literally, that meant that Israel in the religious sense was de trop, finished, archaic, its wretched condition an example of punishment for unbelief in the Christian faith, […]
[…] 1960, and 13 May 1963. F. Ross Peterson, “Utah Politics Since 1945,” in Richard D. Poll et al., Utah’s History (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1978), 516. Clark, memorandum of conversation with “Chairman […]
[…] testimony in English (I would say that offerings were equally balanced between English, Sotho, Twsana, and Zulu, al though the branch presidency presided and conducted in English) I thought of scriptures speaking of love […]
[…] 49. Quinn, Same-sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans. Joseph Smith sermon, 16 Apr. 1843, in Joseph Smith et al., History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I: History of Joseph Smith […]
[…] Joseph’s marriages, we find that he experimented with plural marriage in Ohio and Missouri in the 1830s. De tailed records of these marriages are not extant, but I believe that the evidence, when weighed […]
I release my pretty doves and they ascend like sparks to disappear. And look how restless I am,
[…] as strong evidence of a divine inspiration resting upon the Prophet, Joseph Smith” (in Joseph Smith et al., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 vols., ed. B. H. Roberts […]