June 10, 1971 by •
devil(s),
evil,
God,
hell,
humor,
Mark Twain,
mourning,
testimony,
truth,
war
4 pp., typescript of remarks made in an address delivered on June 9, 1967
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
March 18, 1969 by •
Adam,
Aeons of Peace,
angel(s) first,
apocryphal works writings,
baptism Christian,
Christianity,
darkness Watchers of,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
drama,
Egypt First Dynasty,
evil One,
God,
good,
Horus,
Jews,
King(s),
knowledge,
light Sons of Light,
Marduk,
matter,
Memphite theology,
Menes,
Messiah,
ordinances,
Plan of Salvation,
Ptah,
resurrection,
salvation,
Satan,
Seth,
Shabako stone,
Sons of Darkness,
Sons of God,
Sons of Heaven,
Sons of Light,
spirit (and matter),
spirituality,
Teti,
the Gospel,
Tiamat,
Two Ways doctrine of the,
Watchers,
Watchers of Darkness
BYU Studies 7:1 (Autumn 1965): 3-27; reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Prov: Religious Studies Center, 1978):21-47; CWHN 12:177-211. A talk given as the Second Annual BYU Faculty Lecture on March 17, 1965. — Midgley
February 25, 1969 by •
ancient world,
antiquities,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
Christianity,
Eduard Meyer,
God,
investigations,
Islam,
Joseph Smith and Judaism,
Koran,
miracle(s),
Mohammed,
Mormon(s),
Mormonism,
Moslem(s),
Plan of Salvation,
prophet(s),
religion,
religion revealed,
Satan,
Three Witnesses,
Word of Wisdom
The Ensign 2:3 (March 1972): 55-64. Not all of the footnotes containing the citations for the supporting texts and explanations were published with this essay. — Midgley
February 13, 1969 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
angel(s),
animals,
anthropologist,
Apocalypse of Abraham,
apostles,
behavior,
Christian(s) writings,
computers,
evil One,
fiction,
gadgets,
God,
good,
intelligence,
light,
machine,
man,
mind,
moral(s),
religion,
righteous the,
robot,
science,
science fiction,
scientist(s),
Sophists,
the Gospel,
The LORD
22 pp. s.s., typed transcript of a talk given February 13, 1969; published, with some changes, in LDSF 2: Latter-day Science Fiction, ed. by Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985): 5-28; CWHN 12:491-531 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 …
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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 …
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July 13, 1965 by •
Alma,
American Indians,
Arab(s) scholar,
arrow divination,
belomancy,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
brass ball,
compass,
direction,
director,
divination,
divinatory sticks,
Ezekiel,
faith,
familiar,
gifts of God,
God,
Indians American,
Jaredites,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish custom,
Joseph Smith,
Lehi,
Liahona,
magic,
magicians,
miracle(s),
miraculous power,
Nephi,
ordinary,
pointers,
power(s) of God,
punctuation,
revelation(s),
round ball,
shaking,
shining stones,
shooting,
s_hamachul (arabic),
T. Fahd,
temporal,
the critic(s),
the Kaabeh,
time of Ignorance,
tossing,
travelers,
type and shadow,
writing,
zalam
The Improvement Era 64:2 (February 1961):87-89, 104-106, 108-111. An examination of the Liahona in the light of Arabic divination arrows. — Midgley