[…] entered Dartmouth College the year after Spaulding graduated, has been at least first runner-up in the balloting. Now, after a two-decade lull, David Persuitte, who has spent a decade researching and writing Joseph Smith […]
[…] Davis compares the two men, saying “Davis, like Smith, was raised in a poor household and received little formal education—Davis, in fact, would claim to have received only “little more than five months” of schooling.”
[…] a Reorganite friend has the following: Have you ever wondered about the source of the prehistoric ruins now being discovered on the American continents? Have you ever been curious to know who some of the […]
[…] taught, were to be “traveling quorums, to go into all the earth, whithersoever the Twelve Apostles shall call them.” A month later a revelation on priesthood (D&C 107) specified that seventies were to “preach […]
[…] prophecies in their historical context and compares their meaning as a message for his time with the expanded meaning that Christians — and specifically Mormons — have since applied to them thousands of years later.
[…] and emphases of the Saints change in order to adapt. Although this is something of a judgment call, it seems to this writer that what we are witnessing over the course of LDS church […]
<i>Dialogue 52.2 (Summer 2019): 59–84</i><br>Due to the fact that visiting with angels isn’t part of the normal human experience, it makes it hard for historians to prove that it happened through an academic investigation. […]
[…] recipients is mentioned. A second precursor to the Kirtland Temple’s endowment came in an 1832 revelation ( now D&C 88) commanding that a “School of the Prophets” be established to instruct various Church leaders. […]
As Joseph Smith matured in his prophetic calling, he came to regard what he saw as the rational appeal of his developing theology as one of its chief virtues. Throughout the latter half of […]
<i>Dialogue 37.1 (Spring 2004): 75–94</i><br>However, Mennonites and Latter Day Saints may be spiritual cousins. A sympathetic comparison of the origins of both movements may illuminate their past and also assist in contemporary living of […]