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Joseph Smith And The Recovery Of “Eternal Man”, Robert L. Millet
Joseph Smith And The Recovery Of “Eternal Man”, Robert L. Millet
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Truman Madsen has been a hero of mine for many years, stretching back half a century to when I was serving in the Eastern States Mission. Several of his talks to the New England missionaries and members made their way into our mission. Truman had a way of blending seamlessly his academic training in philosophy and religion and his spiritual knowledge and conviction. He paid a significant price to learn by study and also by faith (D&C 88:118), and it was that concentrated and consecrated effort that allowed him, like his Master, to teach as one having authority (Matthew 7:29; …
Review Of Joseph Smith’S Seer Stones, Joseph M. Spencer
Review Of Joseph Smith’S Seer Stones, Joseph M. Spencer
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
In 1961, Hugh Nibley published The Myth Makers, a creative analysis of Joseph Smith’s critics that exhibits what then-Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a “Puckish delight” in satirizing those among the Prophet’s contemporaries who had unkind things to say about him. In the book, Nibley imagines a deposition, held preparatory to “the case of the World versus Joseph Smith.” The chairman of the deposition questions the critical witnesses in a sardonic critique of the reliability of the sources. In one scene, the chairman asks to “hear about the peepstone,” and he gets an earful. The witnesses clamor for attention, vying …
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, And Chauncey And Francis Higbee, Andrew H. Hedges
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, And Chauncey And Francis Higbee, Andrew H. Hedges
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
On 7 June 1844, seven dissenters from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—William and Wilson Law, Francis M. and Chauncey L. Higbee, Robert and Charles Foster, and Charles Ivins—published the first and only issue of the Nauvoo Expositor, a four-page, six-column paper whose purpose was to provide “a full, candid and succinct statement of facts, as they exist in the city of Nauvoo, fearless of whose particular case they apply.” Concerned that the paper’s accusations and inflammatory rhetoric would result in violence against Nauvoo, the city council three days later ordered Joseph Smith, in his capacity as mayor …