[…] Latter-day doctrines, teachings that were quite different from the teachings of the dominant churches of the day. Today there seems to be more concern about “fitting in” with other religious organizations, sometimes at the […]
[…] church. For rank-and-file Latter-day Saints, this proposition seems simply axiomatic of their foundational faith in the restoration of Christ’s gospel and their divine man date to convert the world in anticipation of his second advent.
[…] was thinking of. Scholarly attempts to harmonize these accounts were abandoned as early as 1879 (Meyer 2:247); today scholars generally regard both traditions as irreconcilable and unhistorical. Matthew’s account was probably fashioned on the […]
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[…] 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 […]
[…] in, for example, Ferdinand Lundberg, The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968). Has Cleon Skousen simply invented the utterly false, paranoid view of […]
[…] 43–73</i><br> Ever since his great synthesis, Darwin’s name has been a source of discomfort to the religious world. Too sweeping to be fully fathomed, too revolutionary to be easily accepted, but too well documented […]
[…] “Pentateuch,” 748. In An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1927), 200-02. For a similar approach, see A. A. Ramseyer, “Who Wrote the Pentateuch?” Improvement […]
[…] Presidency. A few months later a “carefully revised” version of his speech was published in the Deseret News, followed by a formal statement from the First Presidency, listing several explicit errors in Orson’s writings. […]
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