[…] a loosely organized, anticreedal group of “seekers” in which Joseph Smith was distinguished only by his “ call” to translate the gold plates. Whitmer, who reflected the most apparent primitivistic orientation, felt that the […]
<i>Dialogue 19.1 (Spring 1986): 69–75</i><br> How does the Book of Mormon present the basic doctrines of the gospel? What role should the Book of Mormon play in our religious and intellectual lives?
[…] to keeping historical information and pro viding details throughout his journals and memoirs. The original report is now housed in the Rudger Clawson Collection, Special Collections, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, […]
<i>Dialogue 3.2 (Summer 1968): 41–55</i><br>Zucker describes the efforts that Joseph Smith went through to study Hebrew. Joseph Smith’s personal behavior was apparently not changed, but in other aspects in later years there is evidence […]
[…] 1978. McConkie, Joseph Fielding. Seeking the Spirit. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. Pearson, Carol Lynn. Call it Mother. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1979. Yorgason, Blaine M., and Brenton G. Yorgason. Others. […]
<i>Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128</i><br>DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men […]
[…] of my essay, this history straddles the worlds of 1-15 and U.S. 89. I am inclined to call it the Arrington paradigm. Yet the work of the perhaps most important scholar emerging out of […]
[…] Skousen explains the nature of these sections: The original text had sections that Joseph Smith decided to call “chapters,” even though the word chapter itself is extracanonical and is never used by any writer […]
<i>Dialogue 4.2 (Summer 1971): 13–28</i><br> Mormon history is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is […]
<i> Dialogue, 28.1 (Spring 1995): 143 – 161</i> <br> The matter which I propose to examine is whether the “present understanding of Egyptian religious practice” supports Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles found in […]