[…] Elden became assured of his position as the rightful man called to lead God’s people through the world’s end. According to accounts of this event from the group he founded, the personage charged Elden […]
[…] published in Dialogue. I did not know what to expect when it made its way into the world, but it ended up being a widely discussed piece and has been accessed tens of thousands […]
[…] — the one denoting strictly an ecclesiastical body, the other a political organization intended to prepare the world for a literal, political government of Christ during the Millennium — originated with Joseph Smith, who […]
Over a score of years ago a committee of English Protestant scholars planned a major Bible translation, conceived in concern for their age of apathy and dedicated to the proposition that contemporary language was […]
[…] most popular and exciting speakers, a missionary, theologian, journalist, and widely admired champion of Mormonism before the world; and Roberts’ day was a long one—for nearly forty-five years he served as a general authority […]
[…] God.[3] However severely they condemned sin the Puritans realized that living as they did in a fallen world, even they could not be absolutely certain about the state of their souls. Virtue could be […]
[…] Utah and the western United States as core focus, with the periphery consisting of the rest of the world. The exception would be well-organized and smoothly functioning church units in certain urban areas elsewhere in […]
[…] and at the same time a faithful believer, he exemplified the crucial possibility of being in the world but not of it for three decades. Despite his towering scientific achievements, he may yet be […]
[…] you will be successful in your work. We need more Mormon boys to go out into the world of business and scientific research to represent our ideal of living.”[2] Harvey Fletcher spent the next […]
[…] 75–88 Utah Mormons have had over a hundred years in which to systematize and institutionalize their beliefs. Institutionalized religion tends to expend its energies in conserving and promulgating the truths once delivered to the saints.