Philip Barlow
Utah State University, History, Department Member
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The Joseph Smith carried about in the minds of followers, critics, and scholars is too small. That is, Smith's social and religious project is far more expansive than is usually grasped. This is a large claim, give the dizzying heights to... more
The Joseph Smith carried about in the minds of followers, critics, and scholars is too small. That is, Smith's social and religious project is far more expansive than is usually grasped. This is a large claim, give the dizzying heights to which his supporters have elevated him, the potency against which his enemies raged, and the grand claims Smith himself issued.
Seen through a wide lens, the latter-day prophet can be seen as attempting to heal what Emerson called "the age of severance" and what Tocqueville worried was the unravelling of society's bonds. Smith discerned fractures in every social and conceptual dimension of consequence for human living. Fractures, that is, in his era's religion, castes, politics, and economy; its family bonds across generations; its language, its sense of time, its geography, its scriptural testaments, and the bonds between humanity and divinity. All of it. His prophetic mantle, he believed, was to heal this metaphysical breech: to mend a fractured reality. Seen this way, much that seems baffling in the prophet's behavior may be seen to be coherent.
Seen through a wide lens, the latter-day prophet can be seen as attempting to heal what Emerson called "the age of severance" and what Tocqueville worried was the unravelling of society's bonds. Smith discerned fractures in every social and conceptual dimension of consequence for human living. Fractures, that is, in his era's religion, castes, politics, and economy; its family bonds across generations; its language, its sense of time, its geography, its scriptural testaments, and the bonds between humanity and divinity. All of it. His prophetic mantle, he believed, was to heal this metaphysical breech: to mend a fractured reality. Seen this way, much that seems baffling in the prophet's behavior may be seen to be coherent.
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Page 1. CHURCH HISTORY themselves were always tolerant toward the dissenters in their midst who sometimes threatened legal sanctions against the church leaders. Oliver Cowdery complained in Missouri that his republican ...
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In the months after September 11, 2001, essayist and poet Frederick Turner crafted an unpublished tale entitled “The Terrorist Goes to Paradise.” Told in the first person by the terrorist himself, the story recounts the glories and... more
In the months after September 11, 2001, essayist and poet Frederick Turner crafted an unpublished tale entitled “The Terrorist Goes to Paradise.” Told in the first person by the terrorist himself, the story recounts the glories and privileges that greet an operative who helped f ly a jet into New York’s towering World Trade Center. Upon his arrival in heaven the terrorist discovers to his pleasure that, for his heroism, as he presumes, Allah has provided him with all his fantasies and more: movement without restriction, unencumbered by time; scenes of beauty surpassing mortal ability to express; seventy-two voluptuous virgins enacting without restraint his every whim; infinite, incomparable food without satiation; a ministering angel attending to his every request and answering every query. It is all . . . heavenly. Unfortunately, difficulties arise. After the novelty of heaven wears thin, the terrorist grows restless because he lacks a calling, a purpose, some way to contribute. He...
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© 2004 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Set in Sabon and Publicity Gothic types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for... more
© 2004 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Set in Sabon and Publicity Gothic types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the ...
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Construal of the Bible influences LDS religious sensibilities in distinctively complex ways, consciously and otherwise, including Mormon understandings of modern revelation. The initiative to produce for the first time a comprehensive... more
Construal of the Bible influences LDS religious sensibilities in distinctively complex ways, consciously and otherwise, including Mormon understandings of modern revelation. The initiative to produce for the first time a comprehensive commentary on the New Testament that is informed by and contriutes to modern biblical scholarship, such as “higher criticism,” while respecting LDS perspectives, has potential to help the Saints better understand that to which they are devoted. To succeed, the BYU New Testament Commentary may require a widened circle of contributors, a refined articulation of purpose and method, a deepened engagement with modern scholarship, a persuasive hermeneutic, and a format that creates dialogue between, rather than conflation of, scholarship and revelation. Title
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... Nor do key leaders, least of all church leaders, typically consult social scientists for analyses and recommendations about social trends ... on various sensitive contemporary issues, particularly those having to do with racial and... more
... Nor do key leaders, least of all church leaders, typically consult social scientists for analyses and recommendations about social trends ... on various sensitive contemporary issues, particularly those having to do with racial and gender equality ( Iannaccone and Miles, 1990; Leone ...
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Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century Mormon founder, is often accounted for in one of three ways. Either he was a prophet in the almost fundamentalist sense that many Mormons hold him to have been, or he was a charlatan as many others... more
Joseph Smith, the nineteenth-century Mormon founder, is often accounted for in one of three ways. Either he was a prophet in the almost fundamentalist sense that many Mormons hold him to have been, or he was a charlatan as many others have judged, or else he was a mentally deranged charismatic. In what has been the most influential study of Smith during the last half-century, Fawn Brodie bridged the latter two categories. Brodie alleged that Mormonism's founder was initially a conscious fraud who fabricated his first visionary experience; only gradually, by a series of wondrous psychological acrobatics, did he later come to take himself seriously as one called of God.
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