In 1930, when B. H. Roberts published his six-volume Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, learned journals were silent. But he himself, with pardonable pride, had described his work […]
[…] to be saved? 2.Because we have discovered that we need special creative approaches to proselyting here in order to teach well, we have gained experience in effectively presenting Gospel materials in the Chinese context, […]
[…] long (according to Doctor Baer’s indications), and I have a pretty good idea of what PJS (as I shall call this document) must have looked like before it broke into pieces over a century ago.
<i>Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 82–85</i><br>Secular scholarship and L.D.S. studies of archaeology and the Book of Mormon have had a discordant dialogue for some time. The scripture asserts, for example, that the civilizations it describes […]
While it is true that there has been no substantial literary tradition among the Mormons, there are indications that one is beginning. For the first time there is a sufficient number of Mormon scholars […]
[…] time to that of the present. This was a part of the “Fall.” With the Fall the order of existence was changed, and blood became the sustaining factor within man and the animals. The […]
[…] Nauvoo Mormonism was more than a religious faith in the conventional sense. It was a complete social order that confidently joined civil and religious authority. The envelopment of economics and politics in religion had, […]
[…] civil war existed. On October 27, 1838, the Governor of Missouri, Lilburn Boggs, signed the “Ex termination Order” which read in part, “. . . the Mormons must be treated as enemies and must […]
[…] together working in harmony with irrevocable law. We are here to undergo the experience of mortality in order to learn what that experience has to teach; and we are to undergo that experience not […]
<i>Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25</i><br> Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.