The Adam-God Doctrine
April 19, 2018[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost upon in great power, while he revealed some of […]
[…] a session of general conference. He intended to preach several discourses, he said, and as the Deseret News observed the following week, “the Holy Ghost upon in great power, while he revealed some of […]
[…] of the Smith family’s belief in folk magic, see D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1887), 27-149. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, 241. According to Quinn’s analysis […]
[…] scene in which we behold a great Council in Heaven being held at the Creation of the World; there God, enthroned in the midst of his heavenly hosts, explains the Plan of Creation to […]
Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106 Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
Dialogue 26.1 (Spring 1993): 23–82
THE CLASH BETWEEN OBEDIENCE to ecclesiastical authority and the integrity of individual conscience is certainly not one upon which Mormonism has a monopoly. But the past two decades have […]
[…] during the Civil Rights Movement when people both inside and outside the Church were harshly critcizing the priesthood ban. When the world was changing, it looked like the Church was still adherring to the past.
Joseph Smith was not the first person to use the plurality of worlds concept. In the early seventeenth century, natural philosophers began speculating on the idea of multiple world systems. By the eighteenth century, […]
Editor’s note: In light of the Washington Post piece on “The Genesis of a church’s stand on race” we bring back from the archives the famous article cited therein. This essay originally […]
[…] attributes and depicted activities—the Church could maintain cohesion and orthodoxy in its Christ-centered imagery while shaping its worldwide presence as a distinctive Christian denomination. In much the same way that an institution “controls the […]
[…] (Window Rock, Ariz.) Navajo Times. 27 July 1978. Goodfellow, William S. “He Brought Tabernacle Choir Sound to the World.” Deseret News. 22 February 1978. Lundgren, Hal. “Oiler QB Nielsen Devoted Mormon, Dedicated Player.” Houston Chronicle. […]