Archive: "history" Tag
September 20, 1991 by •
Asia,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
desert,
destruction,
division,
Eduard Meyer,
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faith,
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Gentiles,
God,
history,
Isaiah,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
Lehi,
Messiah,
minority,
Mormonism,
New Education World,
Old World,
Other Sheep,
prophecies,
repentance,
the Gospel,
Witness
Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal 30 (New York: Paulist Press, 1968): 170-173; also printed in England under the same title in Concilium: An International Review of Theology 10 (December 1967): 82-83, and in other foreign-language editions of this Catholic journal in French, pp. 151-153; Portuguese, pp. 144-147; German, pp. 855-856;reprinted, as “The Book …
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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 …
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January 12, 1988 by •
Abraham,
Alma,
America,
apocalyptic,
Book of Mormon,
Captain Moroni,
charity,
crime,
Cumorah,
cursing and blessing,
desert,
destruction,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Enoch,
evil,
freedom,
Gadianton(s) robbers,
gain,
Gentiles,
God,
history,
Indians American,
inequality,
iniquity,
Jacob,
Jaredites,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Joseph Smith,
judges,
judgment(s),
King Mosiah,
Laman,
Lamanite(s),
Lehi,
liberty,
money,
Mormon (the Book of Mormon prophet),
Moroni,
Nephi,
Nephites,
New Education World,
Old World,
popularity,
power(s),
pride,
priestcraft(s),
probation,
rebellion,
Rekhabite(s),
repent,
repentance,
riches,
righteous,
righteous society,
righteousness,
robbers,
Satan,
secret abominations,
sin,
the Gospel,
the Law,
Title of Liberty,
transgression,
unbelief,
war,
weaknesses,
wilderness
CWHN 8:498-532 This article is based on a transcript of a talk given at the 1986 Sunstone Theological Symposium in Salt Lake City. It was published in Sunstone 12 (January 1988): 14—25.
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 …
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September 21, 1983 by •
alphabet,
Aylah,
Christianity,
copper,
Gulf of Aqaba,
history,
Lebanon,
Maqnah,
monotheism,
Palestine,
Philip K. Hitte,
Syria,
wheat
History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine, by Philip K. Hitti, review, in The Western Political Quarterly (June 1952): 312-313.
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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March 24, 1959 by •
Bible,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
church,
consensus,
Egyptian,
evidence,
God,
historian(s),
historical evidence,
history,
Homer,
ignorance,
Iliad,
Jews,
knowledge,
Mormon(s),
order,
philosophers,
prophecy,
religion,
religious,
scholar(s),
secular,
Sophists,
the system
in Great Issues Forum, Series 2 (Religion), No. 5 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Extension Division, 1955): 22-39; CWHN 12:434-449. This is the published version of the first of several famous exchanges that Nibley has had with Sterling M. McMurrin. This one was held on March 23, 1955, under the sponsorship of the Department …
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June 2, 1956 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
altar of pharaoh,
ancient world,
apocrypha,
Babylonian(s),
Bible,
Book of Abraham,
Catholic(s),
Christian(s),
clergy,
coincidence,
contaminated,
Dante,
dispensation(s),
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptologists,
fantasy,
Greek myths,
Heracles,
hierocentric,
history,
Israel,
Israelite history,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish,
Joseph Smith,
Lefebure,
legends,
Milton,
Moses,
murder bed,
myth(s),
mythology,
nature myths,
ordinances,
pagan(s),
Procrustes,
Procrustes bed of,
religion,
resemblances,
rites,
ritual,
ritual beds,
scholar(s),
scientific,
the Fathers,
the Flood,
the Gospel,
theories,
Theseus,
true teachings
New Era 1:10 (October 1971): 34-38; CWHN 1:37-47
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.
March 20, 1956 by •
antiquities,
apocalyptic vision,
Aristotle,
Athenians,
Book of Mormon,
colonizer,
contemplation,
Cresus,
Cyrus the Great,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian culture,
Greek,
Greek studies,
history,
Jerusalem,
Joseph Smith,
Laman,
leadership,
Lehi,
Mediterranean,
merchants,
Near East,
Nephi,
Palestine,
Phalees,
Phoenician,
prayer,
repentance,
Roman emperor studies,
Semitic merchants,
sixth century,
Solon,
the Nile,
Travelian
Devotional given March 20, 1956. 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.