Archive: "Letter" Category

A Substitute for Victory

December 21, 2003 by • apocalyptic nightmares, forewarned, Jaredites, Jews, mandate, military, peace, perish, renounce war, salvation, seek diligently, sword, victory, war, warned

an anti-war letter of March 26

Literary Style Used in the Book of Mormon

January 2, 1988 by • apocryphal works, attack, Bible, Bible King James version, Bible quoted in Book of Mormon, biblical scholars, blasphemy, Book of Mormon, Carl Popper, discovery progress of, Holy Ghost, imperfections, Jerusalem, Moroni, outside books, Paul the Apostle, philology aspects, plagiarism, provisional translation, respect, revelation(s), scripture(s), Septuagint, special speech, the critic(s), the Savior, the Word of God, Thee, Thou, translation provisional

Deseret News, “Church News,” July 29, 1961, 10, 15. Originally a letter addressed to “Dear Mr. —-,” dated July 12, 1961. Reprinted in Saints Herald (October 9, 1961): 969-9, 975; CWHN 8:212-218.

BLM Letter

May 7, 1986 by • BLM (Bureau of Land Management), Bureau of Land Management, Utah, wilderness

1 page typescript, Provo, Ut., May 7, 1986 May 7, 1986 I moved to Utah from California many years ago expressly because I had found the last authentic habitable wilderness in the temperate zone, i.e. in the entire world within reach of pleasant dwelling-places. The rest of the world has already become overrun or uninhabitable …

Archaeology and Our Religion

January 19, 1986 by • Adam, ancient civilization, archaeological excavation, archaeologist(s), archaeology, Bible, Chaldean(s), Charles Darwin, China, controversy, disbelief(s), Egyptian(s), evidence, evolutionary theory, God, history, Hittite(s), imagination, impressions, interpretation, investigators, Jericho, language(s), naive science, Near East, New Education Uniformity, opinion(s), Patriarchs, prehistory, prophet(s), religion, scholarship, science, scientific method, scripture(s), speculation, theories, unbelief, uncertainty, Victorians

9 pp. typed paper, 1965; Seventh East Press (January 18, 1982): 4-7, 12; and CWHN 1: 21-36. This is the manuscript of an essay submitted to the Instructor, and rejected, and circulated with two letters, both dated September 16, 1965, one addressed to “Dear Brother,” 1 p., and the other addressed to “Mr. W,” 5 …

If There Must Needs Be Offense

June 4, 1980 by • Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, bloodshed, Brigham Young, conflict, contention, enemy, God, Lamanite(s), Latter-day Saints, Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet), nation(s), Nephi, Nephites, peace, prophecies, war, wicked world, wickedness, world(s), Zion

The Ensign 1:7 (July 1971): 53-55; CWHN 13:270-277. See also Nibley’s anti-war letter of March 29, 1971 in BYU Daily Universe

Paul and Moroni

March 15, 1971 by • C. S. Logan, Christianity Today, Hymn to Charity, Moroni, New Education World, Paul, plagiarized

letter to Christianity Today 5:5 (May 22, 1961):727. A response to a letter by C. Sumter Logan of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Ogden, Utah, that had appeared in Christianity Today 5:3 (March 27, 1961): 551 (commenting on Moroni 7 and Paul’s praise of charity). — Midgley

Nobody to Blame

January 2, 1950 by • anthropomorphists, Brigham Young University, Christianity, church, classical, degree, God, graduate studies, intellectuals, Jesus Christ, knowledge, language(s), learned world, learning, religion, religious views, rhetoric, scholar(s), schoolmen, service degree, Sophists, spiritualizers, the Gospel, the School, the University, True Church, universities

8 pp. Open letter, addressed to “Dear Brother Burgon,” dated July 29, 1960, with a cover letter, addressed to “Dear Brother…,” 1 p., dated August 3, 1960

BYU Harold B. Lee Library

Hugh Nibley Collection