The rise of anti-Masonry was a significant historical and political occurrence in the United States in the late 1820s while Joseph Smith, Jr. worked on the Book of Mormon in 1829. Scholars often […]
Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61 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.
[…] 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,[10] 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.[11] Voegelin, […]
[…] to faith: that God had fulfilled his promises to Israel and had brought salvation to the whole world through a crucified and risen Messiah. Paul extends this basic story into the present moment by […]
[…] 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
[…] several hours at the border but were amazed when the guards waved them through without the usual search of the cars. President Paul said, “After we crossed the border our joy was beyond description. […]
[…] of truth and intelligence pertaining to us as moral, intellectual, mortal and immortal beings, pertaining to this world and the world that is to come. We are open to truth of every kind, no […]