[…] rationale for the doctrine rather than continuing it for more than three more decades. Imagine the Church over that extended period unburdened by its heavy racial history! There is no way to calculate the […]
Join Dialogue Editor Taylor Petrey as he interviews Tanner Davidson McAlister about his article, “ The Production of the Book of Mormon in Light of a Tibetan Buddhist Parallel” for our 39th episode of […]
<i>Dialogue 53.4 (Winter 2020): 79–107</i><br> In the logic of Mormon theology, an internal lack of faith is in part a result of the mismanagement of my mortal embodiment. Part of the reason that the […]
<i>Dialogue 51.4 (Winter 2018): 171-174</i><br> Heavenly Mother is a cherished doctrine among many Latter-day Saints. Her unique esthetic of feminine deity offers Latter-day Saint women a trajectory for godhood—the ultimate goal of Mormon theology.
[…] Americans, I am frightened by what is rhetorically (and often demagogically) called the breakdown of law and order in my country. As is also true for most, no member of my family has suffered […]
[…] Apostles.” This claim greatly excited Rigdon, as he had constantly tried and failed to establish the “ancient order of things” in Alexander Campbell’s religious movement. Rigdon was nevertheless very skeptical of Mormonism because “they […]
[…] and the ethical ambivalence that characterized the rise of industrialization, these communities offered not a retreat from social order but a laboratory in which a new complex of religious and social values could be developed […]
[…] accepted a big wedding for the same day and would not be able to fill the branch’s order. Spencer came home from the caterer’s and went straight to his room. He lay on his […]
[…] explorers and pioneers, but it represented a willingness to give limited support to a military effort in order to benefit the larger needs of the Mormon kingdom. Ironically, in later years the Mormon Battalion […]
[…] Saints planning to go by sea on the first emigration to California were putting their affairs in order and gathering to New York City. They came from all directions: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New […]