Theology is usually considered an intellectual activity for philosophers and educated religionists. Actually, most humans discuss the same sub jects, but at a different level than do the pundits. Commoners too cogitate upon the […]
[…] addressed by the fifteen essays in this book, the eighth in Signature Books’s Essays on Mormonism series. Over a quarter of a century ago, non-Mormon historian Jan Shipps called upon her colleagues to work […]
[…] publisher is closely connected with Signature Books. [2] FARMS Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6.2 (1994): 122-33. Bushman sugges that the mild tone of the book shows that Marquardt, not Walters, […]
[…] 1930s in which the LDS church dis solved the general board overseeing the young men’s organization in order to remove Erickson and Beeley, who were well respected in the community but deemed too heterodox […]
Dialogue 33.3 (Fall 2000): 137–151 Rees’s Fall 2000 artice is titled “”In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See”: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New Millennium.” […]
[…] of the Danites “to enforce his will” and “suppress dis sent” though the extent of his control over this mysterious band remains open to debate (xv). He then refers to Sidney Ridgon’s inflammatory 4th […]
[…] wife of Abraham, incarnates the “very soul of patriarchal marriage,” who gave her husband another wife in order to fulfill his covenant with the Lord. Tullidge emphasizes the extent of Sarah’s sacrifice and the […]
During the 1830’s John Whitmer wrote, in connection with the ancient Egyptian records purchased by the church in July 1835 from Michael H. Chandler,
[…] of young men and young women writers to make a literary contribution to the church. The United Order, as established by the church in 1874, was modeled along the lines of cooperative general stores […]
[…] range of freedom is left large, and arbitrary divine interference with that freedom is kept minimal, in order that I may grow. Were God’s hand always upon my shoulder, or his Iron Rod always […]