February 22, 1995 by •
Acts of Thomas,
Adam,
adversary,
anamnesis,
apocrypha,
Canonical writings,
Christian(s),
Coptic Christians,
Council in Heaven,
creation(s),
creation(s) drama(s),
devil(s),
earth,
endless expansion,
eternal progression,
faithful,
Father of Lights,
Gabriel,
garment,
God,
God's Plan,
Great Assembly King,
Guardians,
house boat Light,
Hymn of the Pearl,
in Heaven,
Jesus,
Jews,
matter,
Melchizedek,
Meritorious actions,
Michael,
obedience,
ordinances,
Pistis Sophia,
Plan of Creation,
Sent One(s),
Sons of Light,
Sun-bird,
the Elect,
The LORD,
the Phoenix,
the plan,
the Scriptures,
the Son of God,
the Temple,
Treasury of Light,
Two Ways,
Urstoff,
veil of light,
Watchers,
world(s)
“Treasures in the Heavens: Some Early Christian Insights into the Organizing of Worlds,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8:3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1974): 76-98. Reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 49-84; CWHN 1:171-214. A complex and rich study of the cosmology of the Christian world, which is compared …
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January 2, 1993 by •
Abraham Book of,
angel,
Athanasius,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian papyri,
Egyptologists,
facsimiles,
God,
hieroglyphics,
James E. Talmage,
Joseph Smith,
Joseph Smith Kircher,
learn,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Mormon(s),
Mormon(s) scholarship,
mummies,
Pearl of Great Price,
schoolmen,
the Church,
the schoolman
BYU Studies 8:2 (Winter 1968): 171-178. On November 27, 1967 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City made available to the Church certain papyri fragments that had once been in the possession of Joseph Smith. These generated considerable interest and also much controversy over the Book of Abraham and what came to be …
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September 9, 1992 by •
Adam,
ancient world,
Ark of the Covenant,
Asiatic(s),
camp,
ceremonial camp,
Christian(s),
combat,
cosmology,
Egypt,
epic hero,
epic literature,
feudalism,
Greeks,
hierocentric state,
Holy Camp,
Holy City,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
King(s),
Mesopotamia,
migration(s),
monarchs,
Near East,
nomads,
Oriental,
outer space,
palace,
Paradise,
pharaohs,
philosophy,
political philosophy,
refuge,
ritual,
Romans,
Royal Progress,
sacred shrine,
sacred tent,
shrine,
State,
tax,
tent(s),
the Flood,
The LORD,
the Temple,
toll,
underworld,
war,
Windflood
Western Political Quarterly 29:4 (December 1966): 599-630; CWHN 10:33-98. An historical study of the roots of taxation, property and political dominion. — Midgley
September 20, 1991 by •
Asia,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
desert,
destruction,
division,
Eduard Meyer,
eternal God,
faith,
faithful,
Gentiles,
God,
history,
Isaiah,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
Lehi,
Messiah,
minority,
Mormonism,
New Education World,
Old World,
Other Sheep,
prophecies,
repentance,
the Gospel,
Witness
Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal 30 (New York: Paulist Press, 1968): 170-173; also printed in England under the same title in Concilium: An International Review of Theology 10 (December 1967): 82-83, and in other foreign-language editions of this Catholic journal in French, pp. 151-153; Portuguese, pp. 144-147; German, pp. 855-856;reprinted, as “The Book …
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February 1, 1981 by •
Agathias,
angel(s),
aristocracy,
Asia,
Attila,
Augustine,
barbarians,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
churchmen,
civilized man,
conformity,
Constantine,
culture(s),
demands,
devil(s),
East and West,
education,
Emperor,
Empire,
fourth century A.D.,
free men,
freedom,
God,
Greece,
Greek,
internal decay,
Jesus Christ,
Khan(s),
landowners,
loyalty,
opposition,
oversimplification,
pagan(s),
panegyrics,
Persia,
persuasion,
polarized loyalties,
Priscus,
rhetoric,
Romanitas,
Romans,
Rome,
scholar(s),
Scythians,
society,
super-weapon,
the Church,
the Faith,
the nobles,
Two Worlds,
Vandals,
Western civilization
Western Political Quarterly 6:4 (1953):631-657; CWHN 10:195. An examination of the problem of loyalty in the 4th century, with obvious significance for our own time. — Midgley
September 2, 1978 by •
Babylon,
Greeks,
Last Days,
Plan of Salvation,
politics,
politics and the Gospel,
politics and war,
politics and work,
repentance,
restoration of all things,
Satan,
Zion
In BYU Studies 15:1 (Autumn 1974): 3-28. A talk originally given on October 26, 1973, to the Pi Sigma Alpha society in the Political Science Department at BYU. Reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 2004): 279-305. An argument that political action is desirable, even in an imperfect world, …
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July 1, 1978 by •
boredom,
brain,
character,
darkness,
eternities,
evil,
expansion,
gifts,
God,
Holy Ghost,
information,
intellect,
intelligence,
Joseph Smith,
knowledge,
probation,
revelation(s),
riches,
Satan,
sin,
speculating,
testing,
The LORD,
the mind,
the Spirit,
the Universe,
thinking,
trust,
truth,
under-performance,
wisdom,
world(s),
zeal
Academic Awareness lecture, June 26, 1975. Original manuscript in mimeographed form. Reprinted in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 11:2 (Summer 1978): 101-112; in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Religious Studies Center, 1978): 261-277; in Readings for Intensive Writers, compiled by Susan T. Laing (Provo: Honors Intensive Writing, 1977) 185-194; and in CWHN …
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In Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8:1 (Spring 1973): 73-77; CWHN 12:532-540. Nibley’s views on revelation, the question of the Blacks and the priesthood some five years prior to the June 8, 1978 revelation clarifying the matter for the Saints. — Midgley