In December 1830 the founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith Jr. announced a revelation which established the doctrine of “gathering” the new church’s members at a headquarters area: “And again, a commandment I give unto […]
<i>Dialogue 36.1 (2003): 89–108</i><br> A claim is frequently made that science and religion are not incompatible. The contention is that science and religion can be made to co-exist by compartmentalization, that is, by carefully […]
<i>Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014):1–23</i><br>This conclusion is obviously problematic, as it implies that the early Church repudiated teachings from the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a reassessment […]
[…] of political, economic, and social institutions which quickly won for the Mormons the reputation of being “un- American.” The struggle in territorial Utah, which had been adumbrated earlier and which sub sided only in […]
<i>Dialogue 17.2 (Summer 1984): 96–105</i><br>In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will […]
[…] infant brother, after only one day of life, succumbed to respiratory failure. I have few memories of the viewing, but do recall the delicate blue veins on the side of his infant scalp. There […]
<i>Dialogue 40.3 (Fall 2007): 11–41</i><br> These articles were about legal arguments. The case against argued that marriage was already tenuous and allowing same-sex marriage would doom it, suggesting that people would become homosexuals if […]
<i>Dialogue 1.4 (Spring 1966): 15–42</i><br> Not very long after the death of Sidney Rigdon, the influential preacher and compatriate to Joseph Smith in the first years of the Church, his son, John Wickliffe Rigdon, […]
[…] Reminiscences of John W. Woolley and Lorin C. Woolley. Louis W. Larsen, “Mormon Polygamy: The Last Phase,” American Mercury July 1933, 286. Lorin C. Woolley, born on October 23, 1856, served two missions in […]
<i>Dialogue 53.3 (Fall 2020): 41–106</i><br> Regarding the discussions in Mormon studies and other literary sub-fields related to contemporaries of Smith, the availability of ideas about 1 Enoch and some of the actual content were […]