[…] in which the fatted calf is eaten. This is another detail with ritual resonance in the ancient world, for eating meat was a much rarer event in antiquity than it is today; often it […]
[…] the study of ancient history in particular, and not the special presuppositions of a particular philosophical or theological world view, be it pro- or anti-faith. (2) This leads naturally to my second point. Wide-ranging questions […]
[…] the parents’ own parents may have done). Parents can feel themselves at the center of their child’s world and see themselves mirrored in their children’s love and admiration. They can feel strong and powerful […]
Joseph Smith’s revision of the Pauline closing, “ world without end” (Eph. 3:21) to become “worlds without end” (D&C 76:112), is a significant ontological move. Specifically, Smith’s closing provides an opening for contemporary Mormon […]
[…] of twelve years to fifteen I pondered many things in my heart concerning the situation of the world of mankind the contentions and divisions the wickedness and abomina tions . . . my mind […]
[…] civilians.[3] Hence, using such weapons would be absolutely forbidden by just war theory. At the end of World War II, President J. Reuben Clark Jr. gave eloquent, if angry, voice to the view that […]
[…] descriptive and informational in nature.[2] Beginning To suggest that the early leaders of the Church regarded the world’s Catholic countries with frustration would be a considerable understatement. Whenever missionaries went to the Latin countries, […]
[…] did not take a very active part on either side. They were required to come into the world and take bodies in the accursed lineage of Canaan; and hence the Negro or African race. […]
In July 1830, just three months after the formal organization of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation that promised, “in whatsoever place ye shall enter in & they receive you not in […]
Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40 In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.