January 2, 1978 by •
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
ashamed,
Augustine,
Christian(s) church,
Christianity,
Constantine (Emperor),
Easter,
Father,
Gregory the Great,
Holy Ghost,
Ignatius,
Jesus Christ and Easter,
Origen (early church father),
Paul the Apostle,
resurrection,
The LORD,
Thomas (the doubting apostle),
Trinity
in Immortality: Famed Discourses on Eternal Progression and Future Existence, ed. by Gordon Allred (Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing Co., 1974):140-148. This essay was reprinted from Nibley’s World and the Prophets; CWHN 3:154-162
January 2, 1969 by •
Abraham,
anti-Christ,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
baptism,
Cain,
Catholic(s),
central lack of authority,
Christian(s) church,
Christian(s) Early,
Christian(s) philosophers,
Clement,
Clementine Recognitions,
Constantine,
Consubstantial",
Council of Nicea,
dispensation(s),
doctrinal vacuum,
doctrine,
doctrine(s),
Early Christian philosophers,
Egypt,
Emperor,
Eusebius,
evolution,
falsified,
forged,
fulfillment,
Gnostics,
God,
Great Assembly Gap,
Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity,
Ignatius,
Israel,
James the Just,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Justinian,
manuscript(s),
nation(s),
New Education Testament,
Noah,
Origen (early church father),
Paul,
Peter,
philosophers,
philosophy,
prediction,
Pseudo-Gospels,
rejected,
repentance,
scholar(s),
scripture(s),
Secrets of the Kingdom,
servants,
Socrates,
St. Augustine,
teaching,
Tertullian,
the Church Fathers,
The LORD,
the Primitive Church,
tribe(s),
Two Ways
23 pp., mimeographed class handout, ca.1952. A compendium of passages from the New Testament, the early fathers of the Church, and from historians of Christian antiquity on the question of the apostasy. — Midgley
January 2, 1967 by •
adversary,
apologists,
apostasy,
apostles,
Apostolic Church,
Apostolic Fathers,
betrayal,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
darkness,
defeat,
disciples,
doctrine of Christ,
Early Christians,
eschatology,
eschaton,
failure,
future,
Gentiles,
gnosis,
gnostic,
God,
Great Assembly Gap,
history,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
John Chrysostom,
martyr(s),
martyrdom,
message,
mysteries,
neglect,
passing of the Church,
Paul,
perverters,
prince of this world,
reticence,
scholar(s),
social gospel,
spiritual decline,
survival,
temple(s),
the Church,
the Church history,
the critic(s),
the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Kingdom,
the Light,
The LORD,
the Primitive Church,
the Prophets,
the two ways
Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 84-85; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001), and later in BYU Studies 16:1 (Autumn 1975): 139-164; and CWHN 4:168-208. Nibley presents forty arguments for the apostasy in an examination of the expectation of early Christian writers of the fading of the Church. Professor Hans J. Hillerbrand …
Read More →
February 19, 1965 by •
angel(s),
angel(s) Moroni,
anti-Mormon writers,
apostles,
Apostolic Fathers,
Book of Mormon,
Christian(s),
E. D. Howe,
E. L. Lewis,
Edinburgh Review,
Eduard Meyer,
Father,
Fawn M. Brodie,
First Vision,
G. Townsend,
God the Father,
Gold Plates,
Henry Caswell,
Hill Cumorah,
J. D. McMillan,
J.B. Turner,
James T. Cobb,
Jesus Christ and the First Vision,
Jewish sectaries,
John C. Bennett,
John Hyde,
John Quincy Adams,
Joseph Smith Jr. and the First Vision,
Joseph Smith Sr.,
Lehi,
Manchester England,
Martin Harris,
Methodism,
Missouri,
Mohammed,
Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet),
Moroni,
Mr. Lind,
Nephite scripture,
New Education York,
Obadiah Dogberry,
Oliver Cowdery,
Painesville Telegraph,
Palmyra New York,
Palmyra Reflector,
prophet(s),
R. W. Beer,
Rev. Nathaniel Lewis,
Rochester Advertiser and Telegraph,
Rochester Gem,
Sidney Rigdon,
Stone Box,
the Savior,
the Son,
the Spirit of the Almighty,
Transfiguration
33 pp. typed transcript of an address given on February 18, 1961 at a Seminar on Joseph Smith held at BYU. Nibley sets forth various reasons for believing that there had been a suppression of the story of the initial vision of Joseph Smith by his enemies between 1820 and 1838. See also the series …
Read More →