[…] as theology. I also briefly explain why one way to describe what the Seminar does is “performative theology.” Today most Latter-day Saints who read scripture, for whatever reason, do so using implicit assumptions about what […]
[…] priesthood had itself developed, after 1835. Even more complicated is the question of Melchizedek priesthood restoration, understood today to have taken place at an uncertain date and place by the laying on of hands […]
[…] followed in most printed versions of the discourse since Grimshaw’s amalgamation was first published in the Deseret News, 8 July 1857. The last column is the more recent amalgamated text of the discourse prepared […]
[…] external imposition, shifting the locus of authority away from the power of the story itself (the “good news”) and toward an authority spawned by the partially artificial holiness suffusing our culturally created notion of […]
[…] Alma 39:5 does not simply and unambiguously yield a proof-text for it. I regret to bear bad news, if this is bad news, but I did not write the news, and I only know […]
[…] short stories, Altmann’s Tongue, in diverse (perverse) ways. Jerry Johnston, a columnist for the Mormon church-owned Deseret News, observed, “The word ‘macabre’ comes to mind. He is a literary version of Stephen King, trading […]
[…] Studies, American Literary Realism, Journal of Social History, Journal of American History, American Historical Review, and U.S. News and World Report. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought entered this field in 1983 when Lavina […]
[…] way be determined by the sense of an ending. We might say that we are able to read present moments—in literature and, by extension, in life—as endowed with narrative meaning only because we read […]
[…] of these pronoun errors were corrected in later printed editions). In 1 Nephi 19:12, for example, we read, “And all these things must surely come, saith the prophet Zenos. . . . The God […]
[…] of doctrine” (italics added). However, it would be wrong to think that Wesley’s standards continue to exercise today the kind of authority they had in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In early […]