Volume 46, No. 3

Fall 2013

The Fall 2013 issue begins with an in depth comparison between Mormonism and Catholicism, addressing topics such as same-sex marriage, abortion, and the role of the family, all while highlighting the similarities and differences between the two sects. Next up is a comparison between Mormonism and the Adventist church, specifically looking at both of their rapid growth rates in Latin America and the role this will play in both of their futures. The final article in this issue titled "Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd Lore, and Treasure-Seeking in New York and New England in the Early Republic" deals with the topic of Joseph Smith and the treasure hunts of his youth while looking at the cultural prevalence of treasure hunting in the region at that time period. Also included in this issue are several beautiful works of poetry, reviews, a work of fiction, and an excellent sermon titled "Questions at the Veil" by Philip L. Barlow.

Articles

“As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”—Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage

Wilfried Decoo

Dialogue 46.3 (Fall 2013): 106–141

Wilfred Decoo writes in 2013 ““As Our Two Faiths Have Worked Together”— Catholicism and Mormonism on Human Life Ethics and Same-Sex Marriage.” He expains, “I analyze a number of factors that could ease the way for the Mormon Church to withdraw its opposition to same-sex marriage, at least as it concerns civil society, while the Catholic Church is unlikely to budge.”

Comparing Mormon and Adventist Growth Patterns in Latin America: The Chilean Case

Henri Gooren

Mormonism, Adventism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses are the three great American religions of the nineteenth century.Although they started out as radical groups led by charismatic prophets, each ultimately followed a different trajectory of opposition and accommodation to U.S. mainstream society.One thing they had in common was their missionary zeal, which was strengthened by the fact that each was certain that it was the only true Christian church on Earth. This missionary zeal led to extensive proselytizing efforts, first in the United States and soon abroad.

Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd Lore, and Treasure-Seeking in New York and New England during the Early Republic

Noel A. Carmack

In his 2003 Dialogue article, Ronald V. Huggins discussed the possibility that Joseph Smith’s ostensible encounter with the angel Moroni was the invocation of a long-held folk tradition of treasure guardians in a milieu of treasure seeking and folk magic in the northeast.Huggins concluded that “Smith must have learned of the [treasure-guardian] motif while helping his father dig for Kidd’s treasure and while studying Kidd’s life and lore as a boy.” Some Latter-day Saint scholars, however, maintain that the figure Moroni was a visiting angel, as has been represented in official LDS accounts.

Dark Watch

William Morris

“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.” Isaiah 34:13 “I will make a wailing…

evidence of things not seen

Clifton Holt Jolley

Through an igneous erosion of stone has grown
a single Ponderosa, straight as an unthreaded lace
and tall against this clarity of Sierra Nevada sky.

About Half

S. P. Bailey

“How much time do you spend gardening?”
I say—
My back fence neighbor’s eyes are placid, patient
Riddled with cataracts, half blind

For Margene

S. P. Bailey

The intensive care unit had never seen such a hostess
How was the show? And what did they serve?
We brought her primary stew
A fresh fruit bouquet

IRRELEVANT—RELEVANT

M. Shayne Bell

PROPHETS PONTIFICATE;
APOSTLES BLUSTER—

BUT A CERTAIN WIDOW:
HOW TOLERANT,

Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”

Simon Peter Eggertsen

The border I knew best as a child was halfway over
the swinging bridge in Provo Canyon, between the shade
of Wildwood and the Sundance road, just opposite
Dr. Weight’s place. Beneath it, white-cold waters from
the diminishing glacial edges of Mt. Timpanogos fell,
jumbled along the North Fork, then moved on to mark
other boundaries further down stream.

The Past and Future Boundaries of Mormon Studies | Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason, eds., New Perspectives in Mormon Studies: Creating and Crossing Boundaries

Benjamin E. Park

This is a book about boundaries: boundaries of belief, boundaries of discipline, and boundaries of methodology are all explored in various ways. How did Mormons challenge, create, and transgress boundaries of religion and culture? How…

Mauss’s Travels | Armand L. Mauss, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic

Brayden King

Sociologist Karl Mannheim believed that knowledge is relational. Our social positions, like community affiliations or the roles we take in a group, shape and constrain what we know and how we know it. As members…

“Questions at the Veil”

Philip L. Barlow

In the months after September 11, 2001, essayist and poet Frederick Turner crafted an unpublished tale entitled “The Terrorist Goes to Paradise.”

Told in the first person by the terrorist himself, the story recounts the glories and privileges that greet an operative who helped fly a jet into New York’s towering World Trade Center. Upon his arrival in heaven the terrorist discovers to his pleasure that, for his heroism, as he presumes, Allah has provided him with all his fantasies and more: movement without restriction, un encumbered by time; scenes of beauty surpassing mortal ability to express; seventy-two voluptuous virgins enacting without restraint his every whim; infinite, incomparable food without satiation; a ministering angel attending to his every request and answering every query. It is all . . . heavenly.