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 […]
Dialogue 5.3 (Fall 1970): 11–25 Godfrey describes the steps leading to Wilford Woodruff issuing the First Manifesto.
[…] is both the joy and despair of the New Testament scholar. Because differences are quite limited—essentially word order, synonyms, and a relatively small number of disputed passages—the antiquity of this record is beyond question. […]
[…] laws as co-eternal with God, not contingent upon Him but shaped by Him in the Creation in order to provide opportunities for growth for man in the image of God; we believe that men […]
[…] in an interview published in Dialogue for Autumn 1969. Dr. Larson, whom Karl Keller has described as the first “Mormon poet,” also affirmed a hope that “If . . . literary artists . . […]
[…] upon close inspection of the original document and Joseph’s style of writing a “5” and a “ 6.” An adequate consideration of the issue of the time-lag and the discrepancies in the accounts would […]