[…] various assumptions surrounding his presumed lack of it, has been enlisted by followers and detractors alike in order to frame Smith’s life within the narratives of divinely-inspired prophet or deceptive fraud, perhaps most acutely […]
[…] “absolute beginning” or creation from “nothing,” but refers to the “beginning” connected with our earth and the order of worlds with which it is connected. We can see in this assertion the recognition of […]
[…] as those conferred by any Patriarch of the church: in fact it is his right.” By the order of the church as it existed in 1844, eleven-year-old Joseph Smith in could have received his […]
<i>Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83</i><br> Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while […]
[…] central window on the west gives the greatest story in human history: God becoming like us in order to save us. On the right is the pattern of preparation for that event, Christ’s descent […]
[…] FEMINISTS has been historical in nature. Proponents of greater power and privilege for women cite as precedents the lives of Huldah and Deborah of the Old Testament, the treatment of women by Jesus Christ, […]
[…] than his own which even approached a correct understanding of the heavenly model of religious and social order. Elsewhere the extraordinary and ambiguous kinship between the two seemingly polar opposite movements of the Shakers […]
[…] “higher criticism” specifically to the Documentary Hypothesis itself. J. G. Eichorn coined the expression “higher criticism” in order to distinguish broad literary-historical criticism from narrow textual or “lower” criticism, which is devoted to the […]
[…] supporter: “We are going to have to get quite a few more than we now have in order to print the rest of the issues this year.” Time was of the essence: “We will […]
[…] the lineal transfer of authority and the claim that the “keys” are “tied to any office, or order in the church” as a “deep delusion of the antichrist.” Instead, keys should be considered synonymous […]