[…] of the Smith family’s belief in folk magic, see D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1887), 27-149. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 241. According to Quinn’s analysis […]
[…] scene in which we behold a great Council in Heaven being held at the Creation of the World; there God, enthroned in the midst of his heavenly hosts, explains the Plan of Creation to […]
[…] need for safety. That is, a person will seek to find or create a life where the world is stable, lawful, predictable, and, above all, safe. Once the physiological and safety needs have been […]
Mormons believe that forerunners prepared the way for the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. This paper examines a special set of those forerunners, namely, the progenitors of the […]
<i>Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106</i><br> Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
<i>Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82</i><br> The clash between obedience to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
[…] meaning usually leads to eschatological inquiry. More than mere theology, millennialism is a way of looking at world history and the destiny of humankind. Beginning with Joseph Smith’s initial religious experience, the idea of […]
[…] of worlds concept. In the early seventeenth century, natural philosophers began speculating on the idea of multiple world systems. By the eighteenth century, Protestant evangelicals absorbed the idea into their Natural Theology. For them […]
[…] son, William. Joseph Smith Jr., age five, would begin growing up in a rapidly changing and contentious world. The religious landscape during this time was undergoing a remarkable shift. Between the ratification of the […]