[…] of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in Mormon liturgical rites. But this doctrinal shift did […]
[…] Community of Christ church (until recently the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ o f Latter -Day Sa ints) has gone through significant changes in religious thought. I have contended elsewhere that the decisive changes […]
Dialogue 1.3 (Fall 1966): 47–62
Understanding Mormon history involves appreciating some of the formidable obstacles which confront throse who seek to write it. There is still sensitivity among Mormons to probing that might bring embarrassment […]
Dialogue 17.1 (Spr ing 1984): 106–112
To be a Mormon — in the generic use of that term — is an attitude: an attitude of uniqueness — of peculiarity — • which makes itself known […]
[…] a century. Mormons usually considered that all Indians were Lamanites and that the “antiquities” of the New World were products of the Nephites, Lamanites, and Jaredites. As for the biblical area, that was of […]
[…] Hunter never digresses to explain her Mormon beliefs, but fits them gracefully into the story, referring to Mutual and ^missionary work as easily as breathing, with a slightly longer explanation of the Three Nephites. […]
[…] the morality of individual life as their central concern, she is seldom articulate or resolute about the world view Catholicism should have given her. An absence of positive comment seems to express implicit criticism […]
[…] venture to guess that almost anyone who might be called such has taken occasional flights into the world of speculation, and has frequently emphasized the value of reason in the quest for truth, even […]
[…] an Eastern house, a man without family where family means almost more than anything else in the world, an out-going person in the most reserved of sections. Consequently, he returned to the West in […]
[…] when he refers in such an offhand manner to the part played by the Sunday School, the Mutual Improvement Association, the Relief Society, the Seminaries and the Institutes in promoting Bible knowledge. (Note also […]