[…] dominant in the Church, then we may just as well close up shop and say to the world that Mormonism is a failure.”[1] Shortly before Elder Smith wrote to Commissioner West, Snell himself received […]
[…] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Century 1, 6 vols. [CHC] (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1930), 2: 49. [31] CHC 2: 69. [32] Earlier he had been involved in efforts […]
[…] Christianity, liberal theologians led their churches away from so-called myth, error, and intellectual bondage into the broader world of science, philosophy, and scholarship.[5] That Lyman might be receptive to such a movement was apparent […]
[…] us, encouraged us. We had available one of the great collections of primary source material in the world. There was much that needed to be done. In meetings between Leonard, Jim, and me, and […]
[…] politics than Lutherans have. Luther’s Two Kingdom theory—that the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world coexist, but separately—applied Christianity more directly to personal ethics than to social ethics, and allowed a […]
[…] twenty Book of Mormon personalities and found them as diverse as many of those found in the world’s other scriptures. The Book of Mormon is a very complex canon of scripture that ought not […]
[…] thee my unworthiness, I fear for him lest he turn back to the begerly elements of the world” (8 March). After speaking in Potsdam village, 29 March 1833, to what he termed “an indecent […]
[…] England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his […]
The unifying thesis of the twelve essays contained in When Prophets Die: The Post Charismatic Fate of New Religious Movements is that most new religious movements, though heavily dependent on a single dominant […]
[…] real bishopric. I call him Charlie. He appears in the tales as one wanting to leave the world a better place than he found it. An old sheepherder just off the range came down […]