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Treasures in the Heavens

“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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Prolegomena to Any Study of the Book of Abraham

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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Tenting, Toll, and Taxing

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

The Mormon View of the Book of Mormon

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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The Early Christian Prayer Circle

CWHN 4:45-99

The Unsolved Loyalty Problem

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

Beyond Politics

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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Zeal without Knowledge

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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The Best Possible Test

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

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