[…] [supporters of a closed canon] try to hide behind the names of the ancient, canonical prophets in order to claim authority” (72). He believes the Book of Mormon was created in precisely the same […]
In some ways, this volume is just the latest in a long line of books written on the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Historians, journalists, and others have told this story and furnished analyses […]
[…] thinkers, scholars, historians, advocates, editors and leaders presenting their ideas on what has made Dialogue strong in the past 50 years and what will continue it’s legacy in the coming decades. In this first […]
The Book of Mormon’s portrayal of a great peace that followed the climatic appearance of Jesus Christ in ancient America presents a conundrum. The people of Nephi reportedly became especially “white,” a label […]
[…] Dickinson (Little Brown: Boston, 1960), 160. Peggy Fletcher Stack,”A Mormon mystery returns: Who is Heavenly Mother?” Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2013, https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56282764&itype=cmsid David Paulson and Martin Pulido, “‘A Mother there’: A Survey of Historical Teachings […]
As a followup to Michelle Inouye’s Winter 2012 Letter to the Editor about the International Mormon Studies Book Project, here is a Patheos post with more information on how to donate. “As Mormonism continues […]
[…] In short, this model assumes absolute freedom of choice and so complete responsibility for correct choices in order to ensure salvation. The prophet Lehi’s teachings have become corollary to this idea. In a sermon […]
Dialogue 56.3 (Fall 2023): 1–33 Practitioners and historians of Book of Mormon archaeology have tended to narrate the emergence and history of the field as a story of conventional scholarly investigations by Latter-day Saint […]
[…] Dickinson (Little Brown: Boston, 1960), 160. Peggy Fletcher Stack,”A Mormon mystery returns: Who is Heavenly Mother?” Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2013, https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=56282764&itype=cmsid David Paulson and Martin Pulido, “‘A Mother there’: A Survey of Historical Teachings […]
[…] magazine the Ensign that uses racist stereotypes and terminology claiming that Haitians need to overcome “voodoo” in order to “fully” convert to Mormonism. In this article, Haitian Vodou is described as a satanic religion […]