Volume 20, No. 4
Winter 1987
Contents
Articles/Essays
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
David John BuergerDialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 75–122
Buerger outlines the history of the endowment ceremony but does not share anything that he has covenanted not to divulge.
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Culture, Charisma, and Change: Reflections on Mormon Temple Worship
Armand L. MaussDialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 33–76
Mauss encourages an openess about the temple to help better prepare future endowment holders and to create a better understanding among members and nonmembers.
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Methods and Motives: Joseph Smith III’s Opposition to Polygamy, 1860-90
Roger D. LauniusDialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 77–85
When Joseph Smith III preached his first sermon as a leader of the Reoganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Amboy, Illinois, on 6 April 1860, he expressed his unqualifed aversion to the Mormon doctrine of plural marriage.
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On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage
Eugene EnglandDialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 138–154
England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his words “worthy to build God’s kingdom.”
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Burden or Pleasure? A Profile of LDS Polygamous Husbands
Jessie L. EmbryDialogue 20.4 (Winter 1987): 158–166
Despite what researchers have said over the years regarding for why men married plural wives, Embry argues that a significant portion of husbands married plural wives because of their religious beliefs.
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Fiction
The Whip: A Modern Folktale
Phyllis BarberHeaded west, Brother and Sister Gustavson pushed their handcart for many miles singing, “Some must push and some must pull” before their miracle happened. They inherited a wagon -— all in the moment a hand…
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