Volume 12, No. 2
Summer 1979
Contents
Articles/Essays
Saint Without Priesthood: The Collected Testimonies of Ex-Slave Samuel D. Chambers
Editor
1979: Editors of Dialogue, “Saint Without Priesthood: The Collected Testimonies of Ex-Slave Samuel D. Chambers”Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 2(1979):13–21. The editors of Dialogue in 1979 compiled the testimonies of a former slave, Samuel Chambers, who was a member of the...
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Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
Newell G. Bringhurst
1979: Newell G. Bringhurst, “Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 2(1979): 22–36. Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders....
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A Priestly Role for a Prophetic Church: The RLDS Church and Black Americans
William D. Russell
1979: William L. Russell, “A Priestly Role for a Prophetic Church: The RLDS Church and Black Americans,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 2 (1979): 37–50. In recent years many RLDS Church members have been proud of the fact that the church has been ordaining blacks into the priesthood since...
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Notes
Women Under the Law
Susan Taylor Hansen
1979: Susan Taylor Hansen, “Women Under the Law” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 12 No. 2 (1979): 82–91. Any constitutional amendment unavoidably casts a shadow of uncertaintyover its future interpretation and implementation. The Fourteenth Amendment, for example, has far exceeded the originally perceived purpose—elevating thestatus of blacks—and has come to serve...
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