[…] small “1”) is entertaining, but it is quite irrelevant in the ultimate sense. “Testimony” is simply another world of discourse. One can speak of historically orthodox beliefs and debate the relative popularity of different […]
[…] Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1948), III, p. 167n; hereafter cited as DHC. Orson Hyde, who seconded Marsh’s allegations in 1838, […]
[…] as “inalienable right” number three, the right to eat meat. From April Conference annual statistical report, Church News, 10 April 1971, p. 11. Eschatologists can make of that date what they will. It occurs […]
[…] this cosmic question depend entirely upon the assumptions he brings to it—assumptions about the nature of the world and man’s place in it; these rest in the last analysis upon personal predilection, not historical […]
[…] who seem all too willing to give up their clean air and clear water for a greater share of American technological progress. Michael Coe, a distinguished non-Mormon anthropologist and archeologist, presents some outspoken views […]
[…] final generalization, the New History attests that there is a common Mormon history, that all Latter-day Saints share it, and that it is indeed authentic. Late one night several years ago, a new LDS […]
[…] far off the mark. It was an impression consistent with the observations of Richard Burton, the famous English traveller and linguist, who visited the City of the Saints in 1861. Burton reported that “All […]
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[…] who received their secondary educations in Catholic and Protestant schools are now Africanizing their given biblical and English names. Students who came to the campus as Paul, Robert or John are officially taking African […]
[…] vary considerably in length and value; some are derivative, based on travel accounts written by French or English travelers, while at least one of them—that writ ten by Petr Lavrov—is striking in its prescience […]