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Volume 19, No. 4

Winter 1986

Articles/Essays

Rediscovering the Context of Joseph Smith’s Treasure Seeking

Alan Taylor

Dialogue 19.4 (Winter1986): 18–28
Taylor identifies the history behind the Smith Family and treasure seeking. During the 19th century treasure seeking is associated with both greed, but also obtaining spirtual knowledge like in Joseph Smith’s case.

Martin Harris: Mormonism’s Early Convert

Ronald W. Walker

The Document Diggers and Their Discoveries: A Panel

Cheryll May, Allen D. Roberts, Richard P. Howard and James B. Allen

Document Dealing: A Dealer’s Response

Curt Bench

Leadership and the Ethics of Prophecy

Paul Edwards

1986: Paul M. Edwards, “Leadership and the Ethics of Prophecy,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 19 No. 4 (1986): 77-85. The role of leadership within the Mormon community is vastly interrelated, and thus often confused , with management.

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Objectivity and History

Kent E. Robson

Eastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions

Richard E. Bennett

The Third Nephite

Levi S. Peterson

Of Quiffs, Quarks, and God

David Grandy

“In Jeopardy Every Hour”

Susan B. Taber

Promise to Grandma

Kerry William Bate

And Baby Makes Two: Choosing Single Motherhood

Jerilyn Wakefield

Christmas Sonnets from Other Years

Helen Candland Stark

Christmas in Utah

Leslie Norris

Evenings: His Church Calling

Anita Tanner

They Have Closed the Church My Father Helped Build

Anita Tanner

Nativity

Kathy Evans

A Survey of Recent Articles

Stephen W. Stathis

B.H. Roberts and the Book of Mormon | Studies of the Book of Mormon

Thomas G. Alexander

Dialogue 19.4 (Winter 1988):157–192
The major problem with the “Study” is that, if one takes it as anything more than an analysis of possibilities, it must be viewed as an example of the genetic fallacy (that something can be explained solely by its cultural context).

The World of Evangelism: Redemptorama: Culture, Politics, and the New Evangelism by Carol Flake

John Sillito

Meaning Still Up for Grabs: Zion’s Camp: Expedition to Missouri, 1834 by Roger D. Launius