Archive: "Brigham Young" Tag

Portland Institute Symposium

January 1, 1979 by • Analiza Brigham Young, ancient documents, ancient world, angel(s), attack, Bible, big book, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, C. S. Lewis, consistent, copyists, Eduard Meyer, external evidence, faking, first edition, forgery, Friedrich Blass, Gary Willis, ignorance, inspired, internal evidence, Joseph Smith, Mormon(s), most correct book, Mrs. Brodie, Portland [Oregon], Prof. Bresnich, quality, revealed, revelation(s), scholar(s), test, the critic(s), The LORD, tolken, Walter Scott, [Thomas] Jefferson

Symposium held in Portland, Oregon in 1979.

More Brigham Young on Education

March 11, 1976 by • accumulation, Brigham Young, character, computers, customs and fashions, degree, Dialogue, discipline, economy, education, eternal progression, eternity, experience, false doctrine, false ideas, fashion(s), glory of God, god of this world, Holy Spirit, honest heart, ignorance, intelligence, Joseph Smith, kingdom(s), kitsch, knowledge, ladder, learning, light, mediocre, message, moral(s) quality, perishable objects, practical knowledge, principles, real work, revelation(s), rhetoric, riches, security, sensibility, Shakespeare, success, talents, taste, teaching, the Gospel, the mind, the Spirit, truth, vision, wisdom, work

Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Provo: BYU Press, 1976): 2-20. A talk given on March 11, 1976 at the Joseph Smith Auditorium at Brigham Young University; CWHN 13: 346-379. 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.

We Will Still Weep for Zion

January 2, 1975 by • affluence, Analiza Brigham Young, Babylon, Brigham Young, business, celestial law, consecrate, corrupt, Covenant People, covenant(s), covetousness, dishonest men, economy, environment, equal, eternity, evil, faithfulness, Far West, gain, generosity, Gentiles, God, Heber C. Kimball, idolatry, independence, integrity, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, land, Lord's, luxuries, money, Nauvoo, obedient, pride, property, repent, revelation(s), riches, sacrifice, Satan, self-justification, selfishness, Sophistry, speculation, test, the Church, the Gospel, the Law of Consecration, The LORD, the Prophet, the Saints, transgression, Two Ways, United Order, wisdom, world(s), Zion

CWHN 9:341-377

How to Write an Anti-Mormon Book

February 17, 1962 by • alternative, Analiza Ann Eliza Young, Analiza Brigham Young, Analiza Young, Ann Eliza Young, anti-Mormon, argument, association, attack, bargain, Brigham Young, controversy, credentials, criminal charges, education, evidence, exploit, Fawn M. Brodie, folksy, geographical gap, homey, images, imposing appendix, intrigue, Irving Wallace, Joseph Smith, Mormon(s), Mormonism, mysteries, name-dropper, pictures, polemic, probabilities, purity, purity of motives, rhetoric, rules of advertising, scholar(s), schoolmen, sources, Stenhouse, thesis

Lecture II, February 17, 1962 in Seminar on the Prophet Joseph Smith (BYU Extension Publications, 1962): 30-41. This was reprinted (1964), pp. 31-42. Essentially a preview of Sounding Brass (1963). A long satirical list of informal rules commonly followed by those anxious to attack Mormon things. — Midgley Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for …

Stewardship of the Air

January 2, 1962 by • air, big business, Brigham Young, Cain, calamity, corporate pollution, damaged ozone, Eusebius, Geneva, idyllic, moral(s) dilemma, Nibelungs, physical danger, Pluto, pollute, profits, Provo, pure air, stewardship, U. S. Steel, Utah Valley

in Williams, Terry Tempest, ed., New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community (Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1998): 114-129); CWHN 13:55-75

Sounding Brass

January 2, 1949 by • Analiza Brigham Young, anti-Mormon, Brigham Young, Fawn M. Brodie, gossip, Gregg Thomas Larson, John H. Beadle, Joseph Smith, Mrs. A. E., Stenhouse Mrs., tales

(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1963): 249 pp.; CWHN 11:407-727. This book carries the subtitle “Informal Studies in the Lucrative Art of Telling Stories About Brigham Young and the Mormons” and is a response to Irving Wallace’s The Twenty-seventh Wife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961). A few historians have been annoyed because Nibley pointed out …

BYU Harold B. Lee Library

Hugh Nibley Collection