[…] Lester Bush, and Alice Pottmyer had prepared a Dialogue Idiot Book for the Salt Lake team in order to answer questions and provide complete instructions for producing an issue of the journal.[26] However, Anderson […]
[…] 25 October 1831, when he is reported to have said at a conference in Far West: “The order of the High Priesthood is that they have power given them to seal up the Saints […]
[…] to the Fall. The authors reject the conventional geological column as Price did, by attributing the apparent order of fossils to hydrodynamic sorting of organisms in the flood waters and the superior mobility of […]
LDS attitudes towards war and peace in general have been covered fairly comprehensively in the past decade or so. The attitudes are complex and generally attempt to strike a balance between the duty to […]
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 […]
In the Book of Mormon, when Ammon is preaching to King Lamoni and his household, we meet a believing Lamanitish servant named Abish, who had “been converted unto the Lord for many years, on […]
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 […]