Volume 36, No. 4
Winter 2003
Contents
Articles/Essays
Scrying for the Lord: Magic, Mysticism, and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Clay L. ChandlerDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
JOSEPH SMITH GREW UP in a time and place where folk magic was an accepted part of the landscape. Before he was a prophet, he was a diviner, or more specifically, a scryer who used his peepstone to discover the location of buried treasure.
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Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon
Robert M. PriceDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men with quasi-biblical names wrote the book over many centuries.
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Simply Implausible: DNA and a Mesoamerican Setting for the Book of Mormon
Thomas W. MurphyDialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):129–167
Instead of lending support to an Israelite origin as posited by Mormon scripture, genetic data have confirmed already existing archaeological, cultural, linguistic, and biological data, pointing to migrations from Asia as “the primary source of American Indian origins
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The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends
William D. Russell
2003: William D. Russell, “The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 36 No. 4 (2003): 177-192. In this paper I will briefly discuss what I see as the six major differences between the two churches during the first century of their existence,...
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