[…] of chiasmus. It was an awkward moment that illustrated the resistance within some quarters of the LDS community to including the Book of Mormon as an object of study—and probably reinforced concerns that such […]
[…] Saints created. By the time they established a western mountain theocracy under Brigham Young, Mormons and their community were seen as foreign bodies so much that, in the popular imagination, they were distinguishable not […]
[…] blow at the heart of the Church’s hierarchical leadership structure. In her Dialogue article “The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology,” she documented the “accelerating tensions” between the institutional Church and […]
[…] the Dismembered Body,” 75; see also Mayer, “Rethinking Treasure (part one),” 137. Dominic Sur, “Constituting Canon and Community in Eleventh Century Tibet,” Religions 8, no. 40 (2017): 1. Davidson, Tibetan Renaissance, 231; see also […]
Dialogue 26.3 (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
In his thesis on the “Founding of the Mormon Community in Alberta,” Archie Wilcox explained, “It can be said, without any fear of correction that the Mormons of Alberta do not and have not […]
[…] letter written by Martin Harris from Palmyra on October 23, 1830) in the pages of the Church News on August 28, 1985. And for the first and only time that I can recall in […]
A man stands naked on the rubber of a checkout counter’s clnveyer belt, face smeared with something red. I’m checking the expiration date on the back of a suspicious-looking soup can; down the aisle, a…
[…] the Printer’s MS. The LDS Church archives has a microfilm copy of the Printer’s MS. See Deseret News, Nov. 23, 1974, p. 4A, and Deseret News, “Church Section,” Nov. 30, 1974, p. 3. Hugh […]
[…] product of a nineteenth-century imagination. I am a literary critic who has spent a professional lifetime rea ding, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book […]