On March 10, 1844, Mormon founder Joseph Smith preached a sermon after the burial of his friend King Follett, killed by accidental rock-fall while building a well. To an assembled crowd of his followers, […]
[…] earth “from a more exalted sphere”[3] with eyes that see “through a glass, darkly”[4] and perceive the world in terms of explicit separateness or opposites (what in Christian parlance we term “the Fall”), but […]
Dialogue 52.1 (Spring 2019): 45–76 A Feminist Family Home Evening discussion with Maxine Hanks regarding women in the church as seen through temple theology.
[…] one or a combination of several processes—the adjustment of the gospel to or in harmony with the world, or the adjustment of politico-economic institutions to conform to the gospel principles. If the membership of […]
[…] novelist, short story writer and dramatist—the Russians consider him to be nearly as significant as Shakespeare in world literature—he would no doubt prefer to be re membered as a thinker, social reformer, and preceptor […]
The success of Mormonism’s “Word of Wisdom,” especially its prohibition of tobacco—in promoting Mormon health is now widely acknowledged. Mor mons have shown that they experience what medical science would predict from their […]
[…] I mean those who are trained in the doctrines and philosophies of men now taught in the world, the less regard I have for them. Modern theories which are so popular today just do […]
[…] the theologs, priesthood for the priestly, original sin for the sinners, redemption for the regenerate. The Roman world in which Christianity was born was a marvelous pageant of gods, saviors, temples, priests, prophets, messiahs, […]
[…] study and practice of law. His church and civic responsibilities took him often from home. During both world wars Zina was left to care for home and family—they had eight children—while he served first […]
[…] known that early Christian theologians were heavily influenced by Greek Platonic philosophy, which viewed qualities of this world as mere shadows of “ideals” that exist in an unseen world. Thus even by 413 C.E., […]