[…] revealed in folklore. Every culture has its own creation myths—a body of narratives explaining how the social order came into being and providing models after which people in the present should pattern their behavior. […]
[…] a caring or passionate involvement with being; most existential thinkers concur that truth must be lived in order to be truth. Religious existentialists, such as Kierkegaard, Buber, Marcel, and Paul Tillich, go a step […]
[…] him a little puffery. Fortunately, with only a few exceptions, he deserves it. I hope that United Order Books is more than a spasm on the poetic horizon, a few artists frantically waving their […]
<i>Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 13–35</i><br>However, during the mid-1800s, speaking in tongues was so commonplace in the LDS and RLDS churches that a person who had not spoken in tongues, or who had not heard […]
[…] in Joseph Smith’s cosmos. Campbell’s third function for myth is that it supports and sustains the social order (1988a, 31). Hutchinson mentions “Abraham’s curious racial ideology” (p. 38). An 1828 debate between Alexander Campbell, […]
[…] physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of disease. . . . The […]
[…] likely to separate the role of the United States as the “cradle of the restoration” (where an order of government was established which both allowed the restoration and which has served as an example […]
[…] on earth right away. Like the early Mormon Saints, many believed the Second Coming and the millennial order were imminent. Thus James and John were not thinking of the afterlife when they requested to […]
<i>Dialogue 26.2 (Summer 1993): 139–153</i><br> A study done to see how many polygamous wives there were at the peak of polygamy in the church.
<i>Dialogue 26.3 (Summer 1995):163–180</i><br>FOR TRADITION-MINDED MEMBERS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints the Book of Mormon’s historicity is a given: Book of Mormon events actually occurred and its ancient participants existed […]