With the Utah War’s sesquicentennial commemoration now underway, it is appropriate to reexamine that campaign’s origins, conduct, significance, and historiography. This article’s purpose is to stimulate such probing. I hope to do so through […]
The Vision (1832)is one of the most important revelations of the formative period of Mormon theological development, where novel and controversial doctrines of the afterlife first made their appearance.In a recent study I […]
[…] doctrines, and formed their own cults (Du Bois 1939, 5-13). One cult stressed the end of the world and built special earthen lodges for protection from this catastrophic event. Another cult emphasized personal visions, […]
[…] period, place, and people. According to Frank Stevens, who later helped her paint the LDS Manti Temple’s world room, Minerva’s paintings were dedicated to “telling the story” she felt compelled to paint as part […]
[…] church over the past decade—never have the Saints lived in more interesting times. The recent whirlwind of world political changes has opened up mission fields undreamed of only a few years ago, faster almost […]
[…] hundred officer candidates. I was kept as a Training Officer at Fort Benning until the end of World War II when I was sent to Germany where I spent the last eight months of […]
[…] and sociality is an essential feature of the being of per sons. The moral meaning of the world grows out of the relation of eternal co-dependence of persons in community. At the head of […]
[…] “sin against God.” I believe (though I’m not pre pared now to document) that in the ancient world, such would be the case; the little I know about the ancient gods (the Hellenic ones; […]
[…] That is, causal relations are universal (the “universality criterion”) and given prior events, one and only one world is possible (the “necessity criterion”).[2] Both of these commitments are controversial and neither has been shown […]
Dialogue 38.3 (Spring 2004): 1–74 Bergera uses evidence from plural wives to show who some of the first polygamists were in the church.