[…] revelation texts carved out a complex system of ranks, offices, jurisdictions, and judicial bodies that implicitly rejected the feminization of Protestantism, while forwarding a selective blend of biblical terminology, Book of Mormon-defined praxis, and […]
[…] by the power of faith, could draw aside the curtain of eternity and gaze upon the invisible world. There were men who could tell the destiny of the human family, and the events which […]
[…] discovery of Mormon belief and practices, predicted that if something did not change the Mormon “course, the world’s history will not furnish a parallel of degradation and wretchedness.”[13] Among the earliest observers to suggest […]
Dialogue 14.4 (Winter 1981): 60–69 THE QUESTION of whether worthy women could be or ought to be ordained to the LDS priesthood has not, until recently, been considered seriously in the LDS community.
Dialogue 47.1 (Spring 2014):1–23 This conclusion is obviously problematic, as it implies that the early Church repudiated teachings from the Book of Mormon immediately following its publication. Thus there is a need for a […]
Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 1–35 This article will explore how one of the most open-ended psychological interpretations of Smith’s prophetic leadership and motivation might contribute to better understanding the trajectory of this extraordinarily talented and […]
[…] (1973): 109–126 To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could gather the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in that process, we […]
Dialogue 14.3 (Fall 1981): 89–100 Joseph Smith’s 1838 account of the First Vision has taken priority in structuring Mormon identity, despite the existence of different versions. This article explores why that version is so […]
Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97 For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]
[…] City where he picked up his interest in astronomy and, on 11 November 1854, announced to the world that he had dis covered “The Law of Planetary Rotation.”[19] The last twenty-five years of his […]