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Volume 17, No. 3

Fall 1984

  • Topics
  • missionaries, Book of Mormon, literature

Contents

Articles/Essays

RLDS Priesthood: Structure and Process



1984: Paul M. Edwards, “Women and Priesthood: RLDS Priesthood: Structure and Process,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 17 No. 3 (1984): 6-10. It sometimes appears that RLDS members are more impressed with receiving an inspired document from the Prophet than they are with what it says.

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Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy



Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 23–34
Brazil, with a high concentration of African heritage, was a difficult place for the Church (because of the Church’s racial policy) to make headway among native members. Due to the high risk of Brazilians potentially having African ancestry, the Church came to the point where they eventually discouraged missionaries in Brazil from baptizing anyone who is known to have African ancestry.



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Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology



Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 37–75
As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon were cited and with what frequency? How were they understood?



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Fiction

Personal Voices

Poetry

Response

Reviews

Sermon