[…] small loosely organized group with a charismatic prophet-type leader to an efficient religious bureaucracy which serves a world-wide membership of over two million. Joseph Smith was an innovator, a creative agent of change. Today […]
[…] on the same materials to show that the Council in Heaven motif is found throughout the ancient world is “The Expanding Gospel,” BYU Studies, VII (Autumn 1965), 3-27. In this article Nibley attempts to […]
[…] to effect program and policy changes. But so was the League of Women’s Voters, organized just after World War I. Although, as I have said, partisanship is restrained, the book adopts all the major […]
[…] then is the state of freedom? Is it growing or waning in the United States and the world? The question is a complex one, the answer depending as it does on a balancing of […]
[…] knowledge can relate and how they must relate if we are going to live in a secular world and at the same time spread our spiritual beliefs. I am convinced that if we have […]
We asked if there were ever any hard feelings or jealousy between the wives or families. He said that, to the best of his knowledge, there were never any serious problems of this sort. […]
[…] ‘epiphenomenon,’ ” on the grounds that in their common view man is too closely related to the world genetically, organically, and functionally to be a mere epiphenomenon. Most humanists would also reject the position […]
[…] fall from grace. How swiftly you turn on the Son of Man. Is the shame of this world too much to bear for this one hour? Nephi too has occasion to demonstrate his strength. […]
In the tree, the soft breeze cradles The viper that I wear. A smile, where the fang strikes Appetites into flame, Drifts, like a prowler, through the Garden, And my emerald mask unwinds A […]
The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore, Bending of the Bough In this year’s survey of theses and dissertations on Mormon or Utah subjects the reader’s attention is called to the […]