When Orson Pratt, apostle and LDS Church historian, revised the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 at the direction of Brigham Young, he included Section 85 among some twenty-five other new sections. Section 85 is […]
[…] essay provides new ways of understanding Joseph’s narrative, analyzes previously neglected issues/data, and establishes a basis for perceiving in detail what the teenage boy experienced in the religious revivalism that led to his first theophany
[…] needed to be long to convey something of a lurid past that calls for “confessions.” “More perfect order within” suggests both the problem and the promise that I see in Mormon literature. I have […]
[…] to further a host of goals. Within communities, history represents a way of appropriating the past in order to serve the needs of the present. Maurice Halbwachs’s work emphasizes the role history plays as […]
[…] on this people!” (Alma 19:29). The queen then wakes the king, who calls the gathered people to order. Ammon and Abish’s fellow servants wake up, “And behold, many did declare unto the people that […]
Dialogue 51.1 (Spring 2018): 167–180 In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the […]
Dialogue 18.1 (Spring 1985): 9–105 Quinn shares that even with the Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders […]
Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82 The clash between obedience to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have […]
[…] simply a matter of evolution: times change, and the focus and emphases of the Saints change in order to adapt.[4] Although this is something of a judgment call, it seems to this writer that […]
Dialogue 34.4 (Winter 2002): 19–38 In the years since this event, I’ve found that there are a number of members who believe that evolution is a doctrine of the devil.