In recent decades, the LDS Church has moved out of the security of the “ever lasting mountains” to fulfill its prophetic dream of becoming a worldwide organization. Each year 225 thousand or more Saints […]
Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22 The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.
[…] same year he made the dual priesthood indispensable for personal salvation and for the salvation of the world. In March, 1835, the Prophet greatly elaborated the biblical background of the higher priesthood and its […]
Dialogue 34.1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 87
However, the temple has maintained its central role in the lives of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and […]
Dialogue 29.1 (Spring 1996): 80–97
Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, or […]
Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33
Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
Dialogue 27.1 (Spring 1994): 109–123
My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism […]
[…] preferred the absolute to the personal because, as Sterling McMurrin observed, “their god must have the whole world in his hands for they do not propose to take their problems to a god who […]
[…] to be looked upon as the very foundation of their church and the greatest event in the world’s history since the resurrection of the Son of God. The first vision story states that Joseph […]
The ultimate fate of American minorities is to become tourist attractions. . . . But the tourist boom means the same thing in Utah that it means in Vermont, the same thing it […]