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The Way of the Church: Controlling the Past

February 1, 1988 by • Apostolic Church, Arab(s), ben Chaiyim, Bible, Catholic(s), censorship, Christian(s) church, churchmen, Constantine, control, darkness, deception, destruction of documents, documents, emendation, Eusebius, evidence, evolution, Ezekiel, fact(s), fair deception, falsification, fiction, follies of translation, forgery, George Orwell, God, Greek, historian(s), history, idioms, illusion, interpreting, Jerome, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, kale apate, knowledge, Koran, language(s), lie, lying, Masoretic text, Middle Ages, New Education Testament, Odes of Solomon, opinion(s), Origen (early church father), Patrologiae, Protestant(s), Roman emperor church, Romans, rule of, salvation, scholar(s), scholarship, scientific, scripture(s), selecting, Septuagint, shortcuts, substitution, the ancients, the Church history, translations, translator, unfavorable, Unquenchable Light, Vatican excavations Library, writing

a series of articles in three parts in The Improvement Era. This series was to have been continued, but was actually abandoned. The materials were eventually used in “The Passing of the Church,” Church History 30: 2 (June 1961): 131-154; reprinted in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001): 1-32; and in BYU Studies 16:1 …

Conflict in the Churches between the God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers

January 1, 1979 by • Christian(s) church, Clement of Alexandria, gnosticism, God as described by philosophers, Holy Ghost, Jews, man in God's image, Rabbis, Tertullian

I. The Jewish Doctors: From Philo to Plotinus the Jewish teachers steadily deeschatologized and de-literalized the Scriptures. (N. Bentwich, Jewish Quarterly Review 4:1-21). “…the initiative in the attempt to stamp out orthodox Judaism and to hellenize the Jews was not taken by Antiochus, but by the influential body of hellenistic Jews.” (Oesterley, Apoc., 29). The …

Easter and the Prophets

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

Ancient Temples: What Do They Signify?

September 2, 1976 by • America ancient, ancient America, Book of Mormon, Central America, Christian(s) church, divine power, Egyptian(s), God, hierocentric, Hopewell culture, Liahona, Messiah, Nephites, New Education World, Old World, powerhouses, religious structures, ruins, sacred centers, temple(s), Urim and Thummim

in The Ensign 2:9 (September 1972): 46-49; reprinted in Parry, Donald W., ed. Temples of the Ancient World (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994), 29-47; CWHN 8: 265-273.

The Idea of the Temple in History

July 2, 1975 by • baptism, bishop(s), center, center drama, Christian(s), Christian(s) church, Christianity, corrupt, creation(s) drama(s), Cyril, earth, Egypt, Elijah, fourth century, Gentile rites, God, heaven, Holy Sepulcher, interpretation, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jewish rites, Jews, Kaaba, Mormon(s), Moslem(s), motif, mythology, Nimrod, North Star, of the earth, Old Law, ordinances, Osiris, pagan(s), Patrologiae, place of contact, Plan of Salvation, Primitive Church, religious ritual, rites, Salt Lake Temple, salvation, sanctuary, scholar(s), secrecy, symbolic, synagogue, Talmud, Temple, temple(s), temple(s) rites, the Church, the Initiation, three levels, tradition(s), universe, usurper, Year drama, Ziggurat

Millennial Star 120:8 (August 1958):228-237, 247-249. Reprinted as What Is a Temple? The Idea of the Temple in History (1963 and 1968); and under the title “What is a Temple?” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. by Truman G. Madsen (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1984), 19-37; and in CWHN 4: …

Christian Envy of the Temple

January 2, 1970 by • Christian(s) church, Crusades, divine plan, God, Islam, Jerusalem, Jews, Mormonism, Reformation, Roman Catholicism, scholasticism, schoolmen, synagogue, temple(s)

a two-part essay in the Jewish Quarterly Review 50:2,3/97-123 and 229-240. Reprinted with the same title in When the Lights Went Out (1970, 2001):55-58; 91-142; CWHN 4:391-434. A detailed study of the reaction of early Christian writers to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. — Midgley

Questions on Authority

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

Historicity of the Bible

June 2, 1956 by • Amarna, ancient history, Bible, Bible World, biblical books, Book of Mormon, Christian(s), Christian(s) church, Christian(s) scholars, Christianity, discoveries, Eduard Meyer, Egypt, Egyptian, Eschatoes, eschatological, eschatology, eternal, evidence, existentialism, faith, Fundamentalist, Gentiles, God, God of miracles, Greeks, Hebrew(s) Patriarchs, historicity, history, Hittite(s), Holy Scriptures, Indo-European, infinite, interpretation, Israel, Israelite history, Jesus Christ, Jewish, Jews, Joseph Smith, Joseph Smith Jr., kingdom(s) of God, liberal, literary, Minoan Script B, miracle(s), Near East, New Education Testament, Old Testament, opinion(s), religion, scholar(s), scholarship, scripture(s), Ugaritic texts

typed transcript of an address given to the Seminary and Institute faculty at BYU on June 19, 1956; CWHN 1: 1-19.

Two Ways to Remember the Dead

February 1, 1929 by • apostles, apprehension, baptism, belief(s), Christian(s), Christian(s) church, Christianity, Church of Jesus Christ, Clement, comfort, consolation, Day of Judgment, dead, death, fear, fragment(s), Ignatius, Jesus Christ, joy, kerygma, kindred dead, Latter-day Saints, medieval Christian, New Education Testament, of the dead, pagan(s), Pastor of Hermes, Peter, philosophers, philosophy, Primitive Christians, prophecy, proxy, reality, religion, restored church, restored gospel, resurrection, St. Basil, suffering, temple(s), terror, the Gospel, The LORD, the Passion, the seal, work for the dead

in Immortality: Famed Discourses on Eternal Progression and Future Existence, ed. by Gordon Allred (Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing Co., 1974): 199-210. This essay was reprinted from Nibley’s World and the Prophets; CWHN 3:163-172.

Coptic Christian ‘Book of Breathings’

January 1, 1900 by • Abraxas, Christian(s) church, Coptic church papyrus, Egypt, Egyptian(s), gnosis, gnosticism, higher teachings, Isis, ordinances, Satan, secret teachings, signs and symbols, symbols and signs, Trinity

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