[…] 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 […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 231–245</i><br>In the brief essay which follows, I do not reassert the arguments supporting women’s right to priesthood, but focus on certain problems raised by the assumption that women have priesthood authority.
[…] about which we can do something. Mormons must do something about such past and continuing damages precisely in order to achieve our worldwide mission. We cannot succeed fully in taking the healing and unifying gospel […]
<i> Dialogue, 28.1 (Spring 1995): 143 – 161</i> <br> The matter which I propose to examine is whether the “present understanding of Egyptian religious practice” supports Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles found in […]
The ancient Chinese curse has plainly caught up with the LDS church over the past decade—never have the Saints lived in more interesting times. The recent whirlwind of world political changes has opened up […]