This essay addresses the remarkable perseverance of Mormon polygamy.I argue that its survival is chiefly explained by the emphasis it was given in the nineteenth-century Church. The cardinal significance early leaders granted plurality in […]
[…] opportunities to live by light) are redeemed, resurrected and exalted into kingdoms of glory in a post-mortal world. In this view of mortal life as a testing ground replete with uncertainty and ambiguity, LGBTQ […]
The emerging field of whiteness studies in the US asks some provocative questions: How do outsiders lay claim to citizenship? How do minorities shed their image as un-American? How do they, in other […]
[…] campuses, on the pages of ecumenical youth journals, in fraternities of younger ministers, and in the theological world generally. John T. Elson, writing in 1965 in Life, pointed out that Bonhoeffer’s books were gaining […]
[…] Texts (as translated in the RSV) Which is come vnto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth foorth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day yee heard of […]
[…] Bush, 1977. Chessman, Paul R. Early America and the Polynesians. Provo, Utah: Community Press, 1976. ———. The World of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. Cowdrey, Wayne L., Howard […]
Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83 Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while […]
[…] my spare time to locating and visiting these 180 inactive members. In the process I discovered a world of disillusionment, sorrow, and misery unknown in my youthful experience: The majority of these inactive members […]
In the decline of Christianity over the past 900 years, no incident has so symbolized the struggle between faith and rationality as has the trial of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). With his development of the […]
[…] message about creation. Instead the two creation stories are for emphasis, inculcating “the necessary fact, that the world existed only from the time when it was created…,”[18] The change from Elohim to the more […]