[…] dominant in the Church, then we may just as well close up shop and say to the world that Mormonism is a failure.” Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received […]
[…] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century 1, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), 2: 49. CHC 2: 69. Earlier he had been involved in efforts to establish […]
[…] Christianity, liberal theologians led their churches away from so-called myth, error, and intellectual bondage into the broader world of science, philosophy, and scholarship. That Lyman might be receptive to such a movement was apparent […]
[…] us, encouraged us. We had available one of the great collections of primary source material in the world. There was much that needed to be done. In meetings between Leonard, Jim, and me, and […]
[…] politics than Lutherans have. Luther’s Two Kingdom theory—that the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world coexist, but separately—applied Christianity more directly to personal ethics than to social ethics, and allowed a […]
[…] twenty Book of Mormon personalities and found them as diverse as many of those found in the world’s other scriptures. The Book of Mormon is a very complex canon of scripture that ought not […]
[…] England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his […]
The unifying thesis of the twelve essays contained in When Prophets Die: The Post Charismatic Fate of New Religious Movements is that most new religious movements, though heavily dependent on a single dominant […]
<i>Dialogue 27.2 (Summer 1994): 197–230</i><br>I am astonished that it took so many readings and a focus on the question of using gender-inclusive language in the simplified version to discover something that should have been […]
<i>Dialogue 27.3 (1994): 289–298</i><br>Over time Joseph Smith changed his stance on freemasonary, which led to him being included as part of the group. Some of the common aspects of freemasonry introduced into the endowment ceremony.