[…] most effective nineteenth century Mormon missionary tract. Before 1900 the Utah Church published twenty- four editions in English as well as editions in Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Spanish and Swedish. [28] “Oliver Cowdery […]
[…] when considered in the light of LDS ecclesiastical praxis and restoration scripture. By fundamentalist, I mean the world-view that sees the commitment of faith as an irreducible given, extends this commitment to its broadest […]
William Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph Smith, has been easy to dismiss but difficult to deal with. More often than not, he has been described with adjectives like violent, wicked, unstable, and […]
[…] could get past my own prejudices and listen carefully to how he, as another Christian, viewed the world. He really does believe that environment has more to do with a person’s sinning than will […]
[…] to why she doesn’t want to talk about Placement, about the rudeness of being thrust into another world as a ten year-old girl. Finally, when it seems obvious she does want to talk about […]
The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews sums up his Christian faith with the memorable cry (13:8): “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever!” The “yesterday” and “today” of this cry […]
[…] its simple goodness. My return to America was charged with social activism and a new life purpose—relieve world He stopped reading, startled by a shout from the cab. Twisting as before, he glanced back […]
[…] to be moved by the fortunes and mis fortunes of the characters, etc. One enters a fictive world, a narrative world, in order to feel and experience things one would never otherwise experience. We […]
[…] societies in the wake of the French Revolution and the literature that accompanied it in the transatlantic world of early America provides that crucial context, when anti-Jacobinism played such a major role in the […]
Dialogue 12.4 (Winter 1979): 46–61 Clayton discusses the history behind The Supreme Court Case Reynolds v. United States (1876), and shares his opinion about what was going on between members in Salt Lake and […]