[…] 317-22.) Having said so much, I admit, with equal cheerfulness, that Franklin Fisher displays a very high order of religious imagination. The high points of the novel for me are precisely those scenes in […]
[…] their sons and daughters on missions. My own father had been having rather severe financial difficulties. In order to send the monthly checks needed for my support, he sometimes had to borrow money from […]
<i>Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 21–39</i><br> Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
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[…] take place in the deep past, reveal ultimate truths, and usually explain the cosmological, social, and moral order. Thus the Bible, for instance, is myth for many Christians and Jews. Coyote stories function like […]
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[…] ambivalence is a phenomenon typical of new religious movements whose tension with society requires periodic adjustment in order to survive. Movements which maintain too much tension may stagnate; movements which are too accommodating lose […]
[…] discovered by Colum bus; his comparison of Joseph Smith with Don Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Order who is a canonized saint of the Catholic church; and his mention that Emilio Salgari, a […]
[…] Council of the Twelve and First Presidency similarly. Some of the exceptions are important. For example, on 6 September 1898, shortly after the death of Wilford Wood ruff, Smith reported that Lorenzo Snow sent […]
[…] and Morning Star to hasten their availability to the members of the Church, despite an April 1832 order that “revelations be limited to the parties concerned until printed” in the Book of Commandments (Cannon […]