In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the […]
[…] message about creation. Instead the two creation stories are for emphasis, inculcating “the necessary fact, that the world existed only from the time when it was created…,” The change from Elohim to the more […]
<i>Dialogue 40.4 (2007): 70–105</i><br> The purpose of this article is to begin filling that gap by discussing some of the publicity accompanying the recently built Helsinki FinlandTemple, located in the southern Finland city of Espoo.
<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 73–103</i><br> Davis compares the two men, saying “Davis, like Smith, was raised in a poor household and received little formal education—Davis, in fact, would claim to have received only “little […]
[…] homework. That included academic preparation in Harvard University’s Department of Social Relations where, as a veteran of World War II, he wrote a brilliant undergraduate thesis on an ultraorthodox Catholic center in Cambridge. Graduating […]
[…] to reveal unto my church things which have been kept hid from before the foundation of the world, things that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of times.” (D&C 124:40-41). Anointed Saints were thus […]
[…] brother Brigham is satisfied with it, I am.” I do not wish any Latter-day Saint in this world, nor in heaven, to be satisfied with anything I do, unless the Spirit of the Lord […]
[…] but wrong, dangerous, even blasphemous. They seemed to me to represent and promote a view of the world that I am trying to overcome in myself, a view that is inimical to the gospel […]
[…] rewards, meaning systems, relationships with deity and with departed loved ones, and so on. As in the commercial world, religious monopolies or other “restraints of trade” tend to depress entrepreneurship in the market. Thus in […]
[…] associates revolution with “the inner and the outer,” referring to the righteousness of the individual and the world respectively. Captain Moroni, a Nephite commander of the same stripe as Gideon in the Old Testament, […]