[…] that thou is a nominative pronoun (a subject) and therefore never follows a preposition. If it doesn’t grate, then you are living, breathing evidence of the difficulties presented by archaic second-person pronouns in twenty-first-century Mormonism.
[…] hard service, having survived such disasters as sprung masts and a head-on collision, and having traveled the world (Radcliffe 1923, 73—74), the Brooklyn was now at a disadvantage when competing with newer, larger, and […]
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, […]