[…] origins. At one extreme are those who are skeptical of the book‘s claims to antiquity who generally conclude that it is a pious fraud, written by Joseph Smith from information available in his immediate environment.
[…] since 1975 and was under contract with Doubleday. Several months later, however, the Newells received a phone call from Fred Esplin and Randall Mackey, who arranged to meet with them at their home. It […]
<i>Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82</i><br>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 seen […]
[…] is eclectic; I think there are different things going on in different passages. I find what I call the “Matthews paradigm” to be a useful way of thinking about those different things: 1. Portions […]
[…] produced the issue their way. As a means of soliciting manuscripts, the guest editors announced a “ call for papers” in the summer 1970 issue of Dialogue (inside back cover), and the Los Angeles […]
[…] to Brigham Young University, where I was in volved in the same sorts of things.” Apostle Benson’s call in November 1960 for “espionage” at Brigham Young University reflected two dimensions of the national leadership […]
[…] profession with our brethren, when they knew they lied. If they were of our profession, why not call at our office and get their papers endorsed? Because they know that they are of their […]
[…] spent a professional lifetime reading, teaching, and writing about literary texts. Much of my interest in and approach to the Book of Mormon lies with the text—though not just as a field for scholarly exploration.
[…] developed various “limited geography” models of where the events of the Book of Mormon occurred. These models contrast with the traditional western hemisphere model, which is still the most familiar to Book of Mormon readers.
[…] the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders arguring that no plural marriages were happening, there is evidence to support the fact that both church members and church leaders were entering into new plural marriages.