[…] are some of the things on which the foundation rests secure. 1. Joseph Smith came before the world with a “scenario,” arresting, original, satisfying. Because of that alone he couldn’t lose. Consider: he had […]
[…] the Father, the name of a “Head God” who directed the Father in the creation of the world, and as a plural representing the Council of the Gods. The name Jehovah was also still […]
[…] Testament scholars in the following description of Jesus’ teaching: “God will suddenly put an end to the world and to history . . . Jesus expected that this would take place soon, in the […]
[…] and thus provide a prolegomena to further discussion of grace in my own tradition. Some of the world’s brightest and kindest thinkers have devoted their best efforts to elucidating the relationship of grace to […]
Dialogue 24.3 (Fall 1991): 21–39 Lyman discusses the political pressures from the United Government which led to the church issuing the First Manifesto.
[…] manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction to prophetic posturing and swagger. In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses.
March 26, 1996 I am sitting in a hotel suite in Moscow. The airport lost our luggage, so we are going to stay here until they find it. Our total flight time was fifteen […]
[…] owe a debt that the “little things” of life, the day-to-day knowledge of God’s blessings in the world, were retained along with the sweeping stories of liberation and peoplehood. The wisdom books are part […]
[…] In particular, Joseph Smith, Jr., and Brigham Young are icons who have come to dominate the Mormon world like mythical colossuses. After Smith’s untimely 1844 murder, Brigham Young and an ailing Sidney Rigdon, the […]
[…] were Spanish-speaking, two used American Sign Language, and one unit each spoke Chinese and Korean, thus, putting English-speaking units into the minority. Lucas (like many sociologists of religion) argues that social networks are critical […]