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Volume 2, No. 4

Winter 1967

Articles/Essays

Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights

Armand L. Mauss

1967: Armand L. Mauss, “Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 2 No. 4 (1967):19–40. In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African...

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New Approaches to Church Executive Leadership: Behavioral Science Perspectives

Kendall Price and Kent Lloyd

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: A Conversation with Professor Atiya

Glen Wade

The L.D.S. Church has received part of a collection of papyrus manuscripts which had generally been presumed lost for more than 100 years. These eleven papyri, presented to the First Presidency by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and now being examined at Brigham Young University, include the drawing Joseph...

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The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

Lynn Travers

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

Norman Tolk

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

George D. Smith

Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967)57.
here are eleven documents. In addition, there is a letter of presentation from the family of Joseph Smith. The documents in question are fragments of funerary papyri; that is, fragments of long scrolls containing texts intended for the benefit of the deceased and placed in the dead man’s tomb.

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

Lynn Travers, Norman Tolk and George D. Smith

DIALOGUE: On Monday, November 27, 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presented a number of documents to President N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency, who accepted them on behalf of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What were these documents? Could you describe...

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Notes

Mormon Lives: Melvin J. Ballard: Crusader for Righteousness (no author given), B.H. Roberts: A Biography by Robert H. Malan

Davis Bitton

God, Man, and Art: Beginnings by Carol Lynn Pearson

Dale Fletcher

An Experiment in Mormon Publishing: The Valley of Tomorrow by Gordon T. Allred, Strangers on Earth by Sara and Irene Black

Helen Hinckley

A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

What the Church Means to People Like Me

Richard D. Poll

Volume 2, No. 4

Contents

Articles/Essays

Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights

New Approaches to Church Executive Leadership: Behavioral Science Perspectives

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: A Conversation with Professor Atiya

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

The Facsimile Found: The Recovery of Joseph Smith’s Papyrus Manuscripts: An Interview with Dr. Fischer

Notes

A Survey of Current Literature

Ezekiel, Dr. Sperry, and the Stick of Ephraim

Brigham H. Roberts: Notes on a Mormon Philosopher-Historian

The Critic in Zion

Reviews

A Small Helping of Mormonism: Mahlzeiten a film directed by Edgar Reitz

Mormon Lives: Melvin J. Ballard: Crusader for Righteousness (no author given), B.H. Roberts: A Biography by Robert H. Malan

God, Man, and Art: Beginnings by Carol Lynn Pearson

An Experiment in Mormon Publishing: The Valley of Tomorrow by Gordon T. Allred, Strangers on Earth by Sara and Irene Black

A Survey of Current Literature

Sermon

What the Church Means to People Like Me