Within Mormon scholarship, one trend for the 1980s is already discernible — an increasing interest in doctrinal history, or what is more properly called “historical theology.” Historical theology can be broadly defined as the […]
Of course, when anyone asks me what my husband does for a living, I never say, “He builds nuclear weapons.” No one in Richland builds bombs. People here only teach school, fight fires, design […]
[…] serve unto thee in all things as a father’s blessing according to the flesh, and even more for it is given by him who is appointed a father to the fatherless and Patriarch over […]
[…] publication in 1941 by Houghton Mifflin. Part of that prominence has been its lonely eminence, no doubt, for Douglas H. Thayer could not find a publisher for Under the Cottonwoods (1977), but fortunately had […]
[…] on the subject of Mormonism and Freemasonry, is apparently gaining some reputation among Mormons and Freemasons alike for “impeccable” and “peerless” scholar ship. (See Jerry Marsengill, Introduction, The Official Minutes of Nauvoo Lodge U.D., […]
[…] Ann Lang, in 1877 and moved with her to Cardston in 1888 after serving a prison term for unlawful cohabitation, summarized in 1882: “In this year the Congress of the United States enacted and […]
[…] English converts under the leadership of Parley P. Pratt up to Nauvoo where he met Joseph Smith for the first time. This was nearly three months after his baptism. In May 1843 he was […]
[…] massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on a cold December day in 1890. Some blamed the Mormons for the “Messiah Craze,” accusing their missionaries of posing as the Messiah and claiming that the Ghost […]
[…] Mormons. Most creationists agree on a number of specific beliefs. They insist on a very young age for the earth (generally less than ten thousand years), formation of the fossil record in a single, world-wide […]
[…] of multiple world systems. By the eighteenth century, Protestant evangelicals absorbed the idea into their Natural Theology. For them nature contained clear and compelling evidence of God’s existence, substantiating their own Christian beliefs and […]