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Revivalism In The Baptist Bible Fellowship, 1959‐60: A Burkean Analysis, Gregory A. Smith
Revivalism In The Baptist Bible Fellowship, 1959‐60: A Burkean Analysis, Gregory A. Smith
Faculty Publications and Presentations
By 1960, the 1,100 churches of the Baptist Bible Fellowship (BBF) claimed a cumulative membership of 1,000,000--an impressive number given that the movement had begun with 120 churches in 1950. The Baptist Bible Tribune provides the most extensive documentation of the BBF's early history. The 1959-60 volume of the Tribune contains numerous references to revivals. Analysis of these references via Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad demonstrates the centrality of revivalism to the life of the BBF in its early years. Members of the BBF’s first generation viewed revival meetings as (one of) the foremost means of building a fellowship of churches …
Problems With Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources, Richard E. Turley Jr.
Problems With Mountain Meadows Massacre Sources, Richard E. Turley Jr.
BYU Studies Quarterly
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints houses a large collection of information regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre in its Church History Department. However, none of the sources are wholly reliable and must be analyzed carefully in order to piece together the complicated events of the massacre. Turley explains what possible errors exist in Major James Henry Carleton's report, the John D. Lee trial transcripts, and John D. Lee's autobiography, Mormonism Unveiled. Against most evidence, Carleton recorded that the wagon train massacred was the Perkins train, a fact that has been repeated without much scrutiny in other works …
Why Study The Past? The Quest For The Historical Church (Book Review), Jonathan Warner
Why Study The Past? The Quest For The Historical Church (Book Review), Jonathan Warner
Pro Rege
Reviewed Title: Williams, Rowan. Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishers, 2005. 129 pp. ISBN 0-8028-2990-2.
Rational Supernaturalism: Early Mormonism And Enlightened-Romantic Rhetoric, Benjamin Park
Rational Supernaturalism: Early Mormonism And Enlightened-Romantic Rhetoric, Benjamin Park
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