[…] of Eldridge Cleaver, likewise downplays Cleaver’s so-called “dabbling in Mormonism” although concedes that his conversion “shocked the world.” Finally, Target Zero: Eldridge Cleaver a Life in Writing, edited by Cleaver’s one-time wife, Kathleen, makes […]
[…] run the theoretical importance lies not so much in whether contact between the Old and the New World took place, but rather in the degree of impact such contact might have had on New […]
[…] are some of the things on which the foundation rests secure. 1. Joseph Smith came before the world with a “scenario,” arresting, original, satisfying. Because of that alone he couldn’t lose. Consider: he had […]
[…] the Father, the name of a “Head God” who directed the Father in the creation of the world, and as a plural representing the Council of the Gods. The name Jehovah was also still […]
[…] Testament scholars in the following description of Jesus’ teaching: “God will suddenly put an end to the world and to history . . . Jesus expected that this would take place soon, in the […]
[…] heart was embedded in my religion and culture, the other half swelling with love for the wider world and the people in it. In 2008, my church heavily promoted California’s Proposition 8, the ballot […]
<i>Dialogue 19.4 (Winter1986): 18–28</i><br> Taylor identifies the history behind the Smith Family and treasure seeking. During the 19th century treasure seeking is associated with both greed, but also obtaining spirtual knowledge like in Joseph […]
<i>Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83</i><br>I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have advanced […]
<i>Dialogue 50.3 (Fall 2017): 89–115</i><br>I thus argue that Mormonism exists wherever there is belief in the Book of Mormon, even though many adherents reject the term “Mormonism” to distance themselves from the LDS Church […]
[…] accepts it as divine writ or not. Joseph Smith’s involvement with the pre-European past of the New World continued to be strong, long after 1830, when the Book of Mormon was published. In 1834, […]