[…] (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1967). Joseph Smith Jr. et al., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1902-12), 1:253.
[…] east of the Nauvoo Temple on June 16, 1844, have appeared to many to give strong support to this view. There, he taught that God was not always God but developed into God over time.
[…] Covenants 93:24. John A. Widtsoe, “What is Truth?” Evidences and Reconciliations (Salt Lake City: The Bookcraft Co., 1943), p. 3. Again, I must avoid modes of expression. A surrealistic painting might portray just this image.
[…] on “The Bible in the Church” (Spring, 1967) that I quote two succeeding sentences from Sperry (numbered for future reference) to make the point. (1) When Joseph Smith interpreted the Scripture he was able […]
[…] too began asking questions: How will a cloned baby be assigned a spirit? What will be recorded for a clone’s genealogy? Would God really allow cloning? But first, did it really happen? Rorvik describes […]
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we […]
Mormon history has always been a hot topic. From the earliest days of Church history over a century and a half ago, vastly divergent accounts of the origins and development of the Church of […]
[…] her, hanging straight from her shoulders, flat across her chest—she looked like a little girl. She bent over the skin, pulling her black hair sideways out of her eyes. “A snake,” she said. She […]
[…] of Canterbury, Mormonism came near to being the most avowedly materialist of all the Christian religions. (1966, 6) Arrington’s observation focuses on Mormon materialism in its broadest sweep, but I will confine my attention […]
[…] an indispensable element of Christian theology. Now, to make a very long and involved story short and over simplified, as Christian theology developed, achieving its classical form in St. Augustine in the fourth and […]