CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION Reflections on 180 years of Mormonism in Europe – Irén E. Annus HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES The British Mormon Conversion Experience – David M. Morris The Arrival of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century Norway: A Brief Historical Retrospect – Johnnie Glad Mormonism and the Third Reich – Steven Carter One-Hundred Years of …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 4:2011 (45-65) Seal, Cross and Nautilus RLDS/Community of Christ Art and Architecture Bryan R. Monte This article explores three, primary sacred symbols — the church seal, the cross, and the nautilus — and how they were developed and used by artists and architects for the Reorganized Church of …
IJMS Journal Edition 3:2010 56-89 [PDF] On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist party came to power and began to establish a dictatorship in Germany. It was the Nazis’ intent to control all facets of life in the Third Reich including the institutional church. The relationship between the regime …
IJMS Journal Version [PDF] 1:2008 (1-59)[1] The Church in Europe must live again. The work of the Church has run on the backs of its European Saints since the beginning. Don’t think that you are just minding the shop waiting for the Savior to come. Don’t think that the great days …
IJMS Journal Edition 4:2011 (1-13)[1] Speaking of that new religious phenomenon known as Mormonism, Charles Dickens gave his opinion in 1851 that ‘What the Mormons do seems to be excellent; what they say is mostly nonsense.’[2] With those two lines, Dickens managed to succinctly capture the contemporary perception of Mormonism—but …
Gerrit van Dyk[1] “Everyone in the Korean Church knows who translated the first translation of the Book of Mormon—Elder Han In Sang.” – Edwin Jenson[2] While some of the story of the Korean translations of the Book of Mormon is told in fragments throughout the documents chronicling the rise of …
Jared Chapman Introduction I echo the sentiment of David L. Paulsen when he states, “As I have perused the philosophical literature on the problem of evil, noted men’s perplexities, and then returned to once more ponder the revelations and teachings of Joseph Smith, I have been constantly amazed. Joseph had …
Douglas J. Davies The place and role of emotions has, in recent years, become of considerable significance across a wide variety of academic disciplines, not least in relation to religion. I have explored a variety of issues connected with this development in my volume entitled Emotions, Identity and Religion.1 Its …
Alan Goff Yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby …
Kirk Caudle The Encyclopedia of Mormonism states, ‘The gift of the Holy Ghost is understood to be the key to all of the “spiritual gifts” found in the church, including the gifts of prophecy and revelation, of healing, of speaking in tongues, and of the translation and interpretation of …