Dialogue 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1–22 The analysis that follos is an admittedly speculative personal reflection on elements that need to be kept in mind in understanding the psychological dynamics of Joseph Smith’s creativity.
[…] some reflections by some Euro Americans on the encounter between Europeans and the peoples of the New World. Finally, I revisit recent conflicts between Mormon leaders and intellectuals and suggest that this struggle is […]
[…] same year he made the dual priesthood indispensable for personal salvation and for the salvation of the world. In March, 1835, the Prophet greatly elaborated the biblical background of the higher priesthood and its […]
[…] by which God will judge us; and therefore is, and shall remain to the end of the world, the true centre of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, […]
Dialogue 54.4 (Winter 2021): 1–33 Despite its alleged antiquity, jutting back centuries before the Common Era, and its predominant setting in the Americas, the Book of Mormon contains several Matthean and Lukan additions to […]
[…] preferred the absolute to the personal because, as Sterling McMurrin observed, “their god must have the whole world in his hands for they do not propose to take their problems to a god who […]
Dialogue 27.1 (Spring 1994): 109–123 My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual […]
Dialogue 29.1 (Spring 1996): 80–97 Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, […]
Dialogue 34.1 (Spring/Summer 2001): 87 However, the temple has maintained its central role in the lives of Latter-day Saints by being able to create a point of intersection between human desires for righteousness and […]
[…] to be looked upon as the very foundation of their church and the greatest event in the world’s history since the resurrection of the Son of God.[1] The first vision story states that Joseph […]