[…] when considered in the light of LDS ecclesiastical praxis and restoration scripture. By fundamentalist, I mean the world-view that sees the commitment of faith as an irreducible given, extends this commitment to its broadest […]
William Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, has been easy to dismiss but difficult to deal with. More often than not, he has been described with adjectives like violent, wicked, unstable, and […]
[…] could get past my own prejudices and listen carefully to how he, as another Christian, viewed the world. He really does believe that environment has more to do with a person’s sinning than will […]
[…] to why she doesn’t want to talk about Placement, about the rudeness of being thrust into another world as a ten year-old girl. Finally, when it seems obvious she does want to talk about […]
[…] was the official church of Italy. After the fall of Mussolini and fascism at the end of World War II, the constitution of the new Republic of Italy recognized the Lateran accords, including the […]
[…] University of Vienna, regarded at the time as the premier intellectual center of Europe, and perhaps the world. It was in Professor Erich Voegelin’s sociology of religion seminar that Bennion first encountered Weber’s thought. Voegelin, […]
[…] to an Israelite origin as posited by Mormon scripture, genetic data have confirmed already existing archaeological, cultural, linguistic, and biological data, pointing to migrations from Asia as ” the primary source of American Indian origins
<i>Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61</i><br> Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and […]
[…] have a strong tradition of speculative theology, I want to explain some of my objectives and methods in writing this essay. My chief purpose is to make symbolic connections, to evoke families of images, […]
[…] way ashamed of it. —Anthony Maitland Stenhouse So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to T. B. H. Stenhouse), a Scot transplanted temporarily to the western Canadian wilderness and an ardent nineteenth-century proponent of polygamy.