Joseph Smith’s revision of the Pauline closing, “ world without end” (Eph. 3:21) to become “worlds without end” (D&C 76:112), is a significant ontological move. Specifically, Smith’s closing provides an opening for contemporary Mormon […]
[…] of twelve years to fifteen I pondered many things in my heart concerning the situation of the world of mankind the contentions and divisions the wickedness and abomina tions . . . my mind […]
[…] civilians. Hence, using such weapons would be absolutely forbidden by just war theory. At the end of World War II, President J. Reuben Clark Jr. gave eloquent, if angry, voice to the view that […]
[…] descriptive and informational in nature. Beginning To suggest that the early leaders of the Church regarded the world’s Catholic countries with frustration would be a considerable understatement. Whenever missionaries went to the Latin countries, […]
<i>Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40</i><br>In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.
[…] of sophisticated communication and transportation facilities, the result of which is to bring the rest of the world and its problems literally into our living rooms. The above trends are also having considerable impact […]
[…] died away when I found myself reading proof for the Deseret News. A few months later the world of letters opened one of its tiny corridors and allowed me to enter as a cub […]
[…] any traditional society under the stress of acculturation, attempting the task of, in Peter Berger’s phrase, “ world maintenance” while trying to define a new twentieth-century Mormonism within an increasingly pluralistic society. Under these […]
[…] of the American West has been overshadowed by its profound effect upon the American nation as a world power. A little-known sidelight to the war is the influence that it exerted upon the Mormons. […]
[…] A million rolls of microfilm stored in Granite Mountain vaults pre serve and centralize much of the world’s genealogical information. Computers minimize work for membership and financial clerks while providing better reports for bishops. […]