In 1930, when B. H. Roberts published his six-volume Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, learned journals were silent. But he himself, with pardonable pride, had described his work […]
What message has the Book of Mormon for our world? Does it speak to those who sense their own involvement in the greatness and the misery of secular existence? Hugh Nibley, in a portion […]
[…] they stem. These revolutionary trends are creating rapid changes throughout Asian society, one of which is a search for a new stability, and this greatly influences the development of Mormonism in Asia, including the […]
Dialogue 11.1 (Spring 1979): 19–31 Within two years of his assasination, however, the Church was torn by succession struggles that led to dispersion. Almost a century and a half later, the whereabouts of many […]
[…] to carry the Christian message to the heathen, the unbelieving, the unchurched, the unreached peoples of the world. Considering the current advanced state of the social sciences, contemporary missiologists look at the problem of […]
[…] . . . Even now when he has left me to the mercy of a cold unfeeling world am I ready to receive him to my heart again whenever he returns and I want […]
Dialogue 16.4 (Winter 1983): 33–42 About ten years ago the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints decided that its 1956 hymnal was already becoming out of date. An RLDS Hymnal Committee […]
[…] reflecting the traditional Christian supersessionist assessments of Israel’s “religion” and the reasons for its “exile” into the world. The first editorial position blended well with the predominant American journalistic temperament. Religious persecution was repugnant […]
[…] the newspapers were late, we saw and heard enough about the “way it was” out in the world to huddle together—secure, protected, encircled by the eternal mountains. We thanked God for our membership in […]
[…] that brings me to admit what I will tell you now, namely, that when it comes to the Book of Mormon, that most correct of books, whose pedigree we love passionately to debate and […]