[…] some extent, the superficiality which we have come to expect of Mormon biography. Melvin J. Ballard: Crusader for Righteousness is divided into two parts. The first part, about one hundred pages in length, narrates […]
[…] have altered this strange state of affairs, though they may well prove to have set the stage for such a change. No serious or sustained treatment of the Book of Mormon has appeared in […]
[…] proven by the scarcity of sources, was modest and restrained. Mr. Corbett has tried to make up for this lack by using the testimonials of those who remembered Mary Fielding Smith; by using the […]
[…] statement heretofore made by President McKay and published at his request to the following effect: “We stand for the Constitution of the United States, and for all rights secured thereby to both sovereign states […]
[…] left fragment has parts of the vignettes and Spells 63 and 65. The titles are 53, Spell for not eating dung or drinking urine in the god’s domain; 5·t Spell for giving breath to […]
[…] by Grant Heward (who has studied Egyptian on his own and reports that he was recently excommunicated for his views on Joseph Smith’s ability to translate Egyptian) and Jerald Tanner (who heads Modern Microfilm, […]
[…] conduct periodic soul-searchings in regard to the relevance of their studies to the Gospel. I am grateful for this opportunity of reappraising Mormon history and of relating historical studies to the Church and its […]
[…] 1, 1968, Church News entitled “BYU Gets Rare Books” described items of early Mormon interest recently purchased for Brig ham Young University. What did the BYU Library buy and where did the money come […]
[…] only still supplying a continuing market of a thousand copies a year, but is also being considered for a revised edition in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary. In it, Brodie theorizes that Joseph Smith […]
[…] of Mormonism, which were largely formulated in the agrarian society of the 1830’s and 1840’s, fully relevant for the urban-dwelling Mormon of today? In short, should Mormonism be urbanized and hence made more secular? […]