[…] LDS scholarship on speciific themes, explring a topic indepth and to consider how Dialogue has been a forum for these important issues since its founding. We’ll also bring you up to date on these […]
A movement called “scriptural theology” has been part of academic theology for some time now, since the 1980s or earlier. In spite of that, with some exceptions I will note, it has had little impact […]
[…] poetry in Book X of Plato’s Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well-governed state, we would gladly admit her,” Western poets have largely been […]
[…] celestial siblings who would one day emigrate to New Zion. He commanded them to prepare the world for their siblings’ arrival (3). The first ship to arrive, in the year 2806, brought green-skinned creatures […]
[…] rooted in the same unknowing “racial innocence,” the concept that holds white people immune from taking responsibility for practicing racism. Brooks associates this with the continued unconscious actions of white supremacy within the institutional […]
For me, as a Native American member of the Church, I approach the hero worship of Columbus perhaps more critically and apprehensively than the average member would. I was taught that he was […]
The three manuscripts by B. H. Roberts which form the core of this book first came to my attention in 1980 while I was at work on Mormonism in Transition (Urbana: University of Illinois […]
[…] among early nineteenth-century American theologians. Indeed, the Book of Mormon itself predicts that when it shall come forth it “shall be of great worth unto the children of men” because it will reveal the […]
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Introduction Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries be fore the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to Mark made in […]