[…] most popular and exciting speakers, a missionary, theologian, journalist, and widely admired champion of Mormonism before the world; and Roberts’ day was a long one—for nearly forty-five years he served as a general authority […]
[…] God. However severely they condemned sin the Puritans realized that living as they did in a fallen world, even they could not be absolutely certain about the state of their souls. Virtue could be […]
[…] Utah and the western United States as core focus, with the periphery consisting of the rest of the world. The exception would be well-organized and smoothly functioning church units in certain urban areas elsewhere in […]
[…] you will be successful in your work. We need more Mormon boys to go out into the world of business and scientific research to represent our ideal of living.” Harvey Fletcher spent the next […]
[…] and at the same time a faithful believer, he exemplified the crucial possibility of being in the world but not of it for three decades. Despite his towering scientific achievements, he may yet be […]
[…] scholarship. In 1938, Clark instructed Church educators that “You are not to teach the philosophes of the world. . . .Your sole field is the gospel.” Ecclesiastical leaders who supported Clark’s positions became known as “Clark men,” […]
Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 233–247 Snow puts Joseph Smith squarely within Joseph Campbell’s famous work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is also known as the heroes journey.
[…] a quarter of a century later. Exponent II was born in one of those times when the world turned upside down. Having been through a pretty significant civil rights revolution, the nation was ignited […]
Dialogue 24.1 (Spring 1991): 13–35
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 […]
[…] the other way around, the adaptation of the doctrines and practices of the Mormons to the secular world in which they live. Several events of intellectual importance have taken place during these 72 years. […]