[…] JOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT 1 (Spring 1966) : 88; D. Michael Quinn, “The Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932: An American Elite” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1976), pp. 162-63. [8] Weber, “The Types of Authority,” p. 364. […]
[…] of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints 6 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Press, 1930), 6:213; FCM 13 Feb. and 20 March 1889. [85] FCM , 27 May 1883. […]
[…] this easy resort to anger and fisticuffs was far from unusual both in the Church and in American society in general. More significant, however, was the general attitude towards such activity. Historian Robert Flanders, […]
[…] in the 1920s when its national membership exceeded two million, making it the “largest nativist-vigilante movement in American history.” As Larry R. Gerlach demonstrates in Blazing Crosses in Zion, the “Invisible Empire,” particularly during […]
[…] back from the dead growth at the sides of the road like an invisible horde keeping pace, breaking into a run when I did and staying precisely even with me. But except for the […]
[…] our ideas as to what constitutes appropriate religious expression. I have been involved in three conferences of American and Chinese writers over the past four years, one of which involved a three-week visit to […]
[…] that others might see the fate of those who fight against the true saints of God (Deseret News, 1 May 1985, p. B-l). Lafferty used the defense of revelation in explaining his actions. One […]
[…] heritage which is perhaps as old as any other of record. The most obvious differences between Mormonism and mysticism are ones of form, and not necessarily of doctrine. The Church organization is both pervasive […]
A 1974 article published in Science identified the Mormon culture as an unusually productive source of American scientists and scholars, an achievement linked to such distinctive tenets of Mormon theology as rationalism, natural law, […]
[…] Brown, who were not related. My father was a large man, very independent and somewhat difficult to live with. He was a stern disciplinarian, having been raised in the old school of the pioneers. […]