[…] Utah. Among his memories are attending the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple and shaking President Wil ford Woodruff’s hand. As a young boy, he recited a short poem at a program in the […]
In his landmark organizational study, Max Weber outlined three forms of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal. Originally charismatic under Joseph Smith and to some extent under Brigham Young, by the late nineteenth century, leadership […]
[…] a universal framework with a common origin and goal. In pursuit of this approach, Nibley collects in formation from all periods of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Israelite, Canaanite, Greek, and Christian history. For example, in the […]
[…] a personage called God”; a second “who believes that infants have the spirits of some who have formerly lived on the earth, and that this is their resurrection”; and (“This is not all”) “another […]
[…] conditions as never-married people within the Church. Overall, statements about singleness in official LDS settings take the form of both blessings and cursing with little nonjudgmental material. We found the earliest statement about singleness […]
For nearly a decade, the greater part of my waking hours has been spent in the study of Mormon history. In writing a dissertation at the University of Chicago and then a book […]
[…] that the Book of Mormon is a verifiable, religious revelation. Book of Mormon Authorship is intended as evidence for the faithful, as a challenge to the skeptic, and as a thorn in the side of […]
[…] patterns. Articles such as those by Wayne Larsen, Alvin Rencher, and Tim Layton have proposed interpretive techniques for studying the documents of the Latter-day Saint past. In Mormonism and the American Experience, Klaus Hansen […]
[…] monolith has come to apply to Mor monism in ways which its young founder could hardly have foreseen. As the Church has grown in size, it has placed increasing emphasis on uniformity of purpose, […]
The night be fore, I had felt a sudden need to read the scriptures, something I hadn’t done in nearly three months. I stayed up until 2:30 and was asleep when Lynn called from […]