January 2, 1982 by •
Abraham,
apostles,
Caesar,
Caliphs,
Catholic(s),
Centurion,
Christian(s),
churchmen,
Claudius,
Constantine (Emperor),
economy,
Egypt,
Emperor,
Enoch,
eternal,
Father,
Felix,
Festus,
Gentiles,
God,
Herod Agrippa,
High Priest,
Holy Ghost,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
John Chrysostom,
Joseph Smith,
Khan(s),
King(s),
Latter-day Saints,
love,
magistrates,
ministers,
missionary,
Mormonism,
Moses,
party,
Paul the Apostle,
Pharaoh,
polis,
political,
politics,
Popes,
prophet(s),
Protestant(s),
restoration,
Romans,
Rome,
Satan,
Sicarii,
temporal,
the Church,
the Gospel,
the Law,
The LORD,
the press,
the Prince of this World,
the Savior,
Western World,
world(s)
22 pp., typed manuscript for an Academics Lecture given on June 3, 1976 at BYU on politics; CWHN 13:105-137. An examination of how the Saints should understand involvement in politics, among other things drawing upon the examples of Paul and Daniel. — 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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February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley