[…] that popular family Bibles and commentaries of the day pointed out the fact that the LXX here read “the ships of the sea,” so that such knowledge was available even to the laymen of […]
<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, […]
[…] past century; they were referred to in conference sermons and in statements and retractions in the Deseret News and Millennial Star. In retracing the fascinating course of theological differences Gary James Bergera reminds us […]
[…] started back to school at Utah State was limited to the knowledge one could gain from reading news magazines and the Reader’s Digest. If I had practically no knowledge of the subject in the […]
<i>Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22</i><br> The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.
The ultimate fate of American minorities is to become tourist attractions. . . . But the tourist boom means the same thing in Utah that it means in Vermont, the same thing it […]
[…] Joseph himself in 1843 employed the same term, “reformation,” in relating his first vision story to a news correspondent. In addition, the Cowdery-Smith account makes it abundantly clear that this reformation activity took place […]
[…] proactive role in the forging of a new partnership environment. For all the historical difficulties, the Church News’s 1992 juxtaposition of the statement that the church “played a major role in preserving Maori culture […]
[…] be held by forces now hostile to Americans. Commodore Stockton not only informed them of the threatening news, he encouraged them to go and hold Yerba Buena, an Anglo-American colony on the San Francisco […]
[…] more: * “ineffability/’ or extreme difficulty to find words apt to convey the NDE; * “hearing the news,” hearing doctors pronouncing the experiencer “dead”; * initial “feelings of peace and quiet”; * then a […]