[…] of ironies and unintended consequences. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began with a mission to restore the ancient church, but not for everyone at the same time. In its earliest days, […]
[…] contours the dual nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that it has become an abstract form of authority that can be […]
The following is excerpted from a longer interview conducted by Shirley E. Stephenson as part of the Oral History Program at California State University at Fullerton, November 30, 1975.
[…] article looks at some of the ways parallels have been used by Nibley in the exposition of latter-day scripture, the types of parallels employed, and some of the problems that arise from this comparative exercise.
<i>Dialogue 54.3 (Fall 2021): 1–40</i><br> The debate about Joseph Smith’s translations have primarily assumed that the translation was commensurable and focuses upon theories of authorial involvement of Joseph Smith.
[…] Mormon as an object of Americanist literary study” (1). A footnote to this passage gives nine examples from prominent Americanists writing between 1945 and 2016—each lamenting that the Book of Mormon has never received […]
[…] the Book of Mormon was genuine. Indeed, the dominant impression gleaned from Joseph Smith’s earliest holographs and now from Lucy Mack Smith’s 1829 letter is that he was religiously committed to what he perceived […]
[…] as a means of divinely led creative trans formation. Finally, the Voice which beckons us does not call us to be faithful to the RLDS tradition or to the currents of the modern world. […]
[…] pronouncement to Joseph confirmed that “it is the eleventh hour, and the last time that I shall call laborers into my vineyard” (2 Pet. 3:8; D&C 33:3). Smith warned that “the world has had […]
<i>Dialogue 39.4 (Winter 2006): 67–90</i><br>Members of the Community of Christ were shocked when our president, W. Grant McMurray, announced that he had resigned on November 29, 2004 , effective immediately.