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 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
April 25, 1974 by •
1 Jeu,
2 Jeu,
Adam,
Adam as Michael,
ancient prayer circle,
ancient religious writings,
animals,
Apocalypse of Abraham,
Askew Manuscript,
Berlin Papyrus,
Book of Enoch,
Book of Nature,
Books,
children of God,
Christian(s) cosmology,
Clementine Recognitions,
cosmism,
creatio ex nihilo,
creation(s) as organization,
damnation,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
degrees of glory,
Disneyland,
divinity,
dogs,
Egyptian(s),
energy,
eternal progression,
Ginza,
Gregory of Nyssa,
heavens,
hell,
Ignatius,
joy,
Kabbalah,
libraries of ancient writings,
light,
Mandaean writings,
Manichaean writings,
matter,
measurement and creation,
Michael,
mortality,
Mother of the Living,
multiplicity of worlds,
mysteries of creation,
Nag Hammadi codices,
Odes of Solomon,
ordinances,
Origen (early church father),
physical world,
Pistis Sophia,
pre-mortal existence,
probation,
progeny,
progression,
purification,
salvation,
Satan,
science fiction,
Sefer Yetzirah,
Sent One(s),
skena,
Sons of Light,
space,
spark (of creation),
spirit (and matter),
the Gospel of Philip,
the Gospel of Truth,
topos,
treasure (physical substance),
Walt Disney,
world(s),
writings ancient,
Zohar
“Secrets of the Scriptures — The Creation,” 29 pp., typed transcript of a talk given in Glendale, California in 1969. One of the best examples of Nibley’s use of ancient apocryphal writings. The talk was also unusual in that he expressed gratitude that it was being recorded. Brothers and Sisters, I am actually glad that …
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November 2, 1971 by •
Adam,
Apocrypha of Abraham,
Coptic church writings,
Forty Days,
gnosticism,
hierarchy,
Jesus Christ Forty Days teachings,
Manuscript 96,
Odes of Solomon,
ordinances,
Origen (early church father),
Pistis Sophia,
prayer,
Psalms of Thomas,
Qumran,
Sent One(s),
the Gospel of Philip
a typed transcript of a talk given at a Long Beach, California, Seminar graduation, late in 1967; 27 pp. s.s.; 44 pp. d.s. Also circulated as “Teachings from the Dead Sea Scrolls.” A survey of teachings in a large number of apocryphal, pseudepigraphal and patristic writings. — Midgley The Status of Apocalyptic Oseterley: “Apocalyptic Literature” …
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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