Or “Lecture at K. Baer appearance at BYU, 1975,”
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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January 2, 1978 by •
angel(s),
antimimom pneuma,
apocalypticism,
Azazel,
Book of Enoch,
City of Enoch,
cloud of light,
corruption,
disorder,
Enoch,
ethos,
evil,
Ezra,
fallen angels,
God,
Holy One,
Jared,
Messiah,
Metatron (angel),
Michael,
Mt. Zion,
perversions,
Sefer Hechalot,
Semiazas,
the Flood,
the Most High,
theodicy,
violence,
Watchers,
Zion
28 pp., typed manuscript of a paper read at the regional meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature in Denver, Colorado in 1974; CWHN 2:66-90.
January 2, 1978 by •
adversary,
anti-Mormon literature,
Bible scholars,
Book of Mormon,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
debate,
debating,
devil(s),
disputation,
divine origin,
Eduard Meyer,
existence,
God,
Greek,
Hebrew(s),
Higher Critic,
Jesus Christ,
Joseph Smith,
literary critic,
Mormonism,
murmuring,
New Education Testament,
religion,
resurrection,
scholar(s),
scholarship,
schoolmen,
Soren Kierkegaard,
testimony,
the Church,
the critic(s),
the Higher critic(s),
The Terrible Questions,
vanity
in Expressions of Faith: Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars, edited by Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996): 139-154. Reprinted from a talk given October 31, 1994
January 2, 1977 by •
Abraham,
alphabet,
ancient,
apocryphal works,
Babylonia,
Book of Mormon,
Books,
Canonicity,
Chinese,
cosmic,
creation(s),
cryptogram,
Daybooks,
Demotic,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
eternity,
evolution,
evolutionary,
evolutionary hypothesis,
future,
God,
heaven and earth,
heavenly book,
Heavenly Scribe,
Hebrew(s),
Hermetic,
hieratic,
hieroglyphics,
Hittite(s),
Holy books,
hostile,
house boat Life,
Imhotep,
inscriptions,
Jaredites,
Joseph Smith,
libraries,
memoranda books,
Menes,
Mesopotamia,
miracle of writing,
Moses,
Nephites,
past,
Pearl of Great Price,
Pharaoh,
pictographs,
picture writing,
power(s),
primordial book,
prophet(s),
proto-Elamitic,
proto-Indian,
records,
resurrection,
sacred book,
scripture(s),
Semitic,
Sent One(s),
Seshat,
Shabako stone,
synthesize,
the Book of the Foundation of Temples,
theories,
tools,
Torah,
uniformitarianism,
universe,
universities,
unknown,
view,
vizier of King Zoser,
writing miracle of,
written language,
written record(s)
(Provo: BYU Press, 1973). This was the Commissioner’s Lecture delivered in 1972. Later reprinted (without the complete footnotes) in The New Era 3:9 (September 1973): 38-50; reprinted again in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 101-127; CWHN 12: 450-490. An examination of writing as a gift from God and …
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March 11, 1976 by •
accumulation,
Brigham Young,
character,
computers,
customs and fashions,
degree,
Dialogue,
discipline,
economy,
education,
eternal progression,
eternity,
experience,
false doctrine,
false ideas,
fashion(s),
glory of God,
god of this world,
Holy Spirit,
honest heart,
ignorance,
intelligence,
Joseph Smith,
kingdom(s),
kitsch,
knowledge,
ladder,
learning,
light,
mediocre,
message,
moral(s) quality,
perishable objects,
practical knowledge,
principles,
real work,
revelation(s),
rhetoric,
riches,
security,
sensibility,
Shakespeare,
success,
talents,
taste,
teaching,
the Gospel,
the mind,
the Spirit,
truth,
vision,
wisdom,
work
Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU Speeches.
6 pp., typescript of a talk given on April 21, 1971, for Earth Week at BYU; in Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate, eds., To the Glory of God (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972): 3-29 b; CWHN 13: 23-54. A collection of passages culled from Brigham Young’s sermons. — Midgley