July 2, 1975 by •
baptism,
bishop(s),
center,
center drama,
Christian(s),
Christian(s) church,
Christianity,
corrupt,
creation(s) drama(s),
Cyril,
earth,
Egypt,
Elijah,
fourth century,
Gentile rites,
God,
heaven,
Holy Sepulcher,
interpretation,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish rites,
Jews,
Kaaba,
Mormon(s),
Moslem(s),
motif,
mythology,
Nimrod,
North Star,
of the earth,
Old Law,
ordinances,
Osiris,
pagan(s),
Patrologiae,
place of contact,
Plan of Salvation,
Primitive Church,
religious ritual,
rites,
Salt Lake Temple,
salvation,
sanctuary,
scholar(s),
secrecy,
symbolic,
synagogue,
Talmud,
Temple,
temple(s),
temple(s) rites,
the Church,
the Initiation,
three levels,
tradition(s),
universe,
usurper,
Year drama,
Ziggurat
Millennial Star 120:8 (August 1958):228-237, 247-249. Reprinted as What Is a Temple? The Idea of the Temple in History (1963 and 1968); and under the title “What is a Temple?” in The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives, ed. by Truman G. Madsen (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1984), 19-37; and in CWHN 4: …
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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
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
July 2, 1967 by •
ancient religious writings,
Arab(s),
Bible,
buried records,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries in 1947 and 1952 and 1956,
desert,
government of Jordan,
Hebrew(s) University,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
Messiah,
Qumran,
Qumran caves,
Teacher of Righteousness,
Wadi Murrabb'at,
wilderness
Instructor 98:7 (July 1963): 233-235; CWHN 1: 245-252. An address originally given on July 5, 1962, to the Seminary and Institute Faculty assembled at Brigham Young University. — 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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Instructor 96:3 (March 1961):84-85; CWHN 8:207-211. A fictional account of how Jerusalem might have been in Nephi’s youth, grounded in roughly contemporary sources. — Midgley
February 24, 1965 by •
Abraham,
Akkadian,
Amarna discoveries tablets,
Amorites,
Asia Minor,
Assurbanipal library,
Babylonia,
Beirut,
Bible,
biblical,
Biblos,
Bokazkoi,
Book of Mormon,
Canaan,
Canaanite,
Celts,
Chaldean(s),
Chinese,
Christian(s),
creation(s),
cuneiform,
Dead Sea Scrolls,
deluge,
Egypt,
Egyptian Wisdom Literature,
Etruscan,
Genesis Apocryphon,
Gilgamish,
Greece,
Greek,
Hazor,
Hebrew(s),
Hittite(s),
Hurian(s),
Hyksos,
Indo-European,
Israel,
Jerusalem,
Jews,
kingship,
Lebanon,
Mari library,
Melchizedek,
Mesopotamia,
Mettoni,
Midian,
Minoan,
Nuzzi library,
Old Testament,
On (city of),
Palestine,
Pearl of Great Price,
Persia,
Philistines,
Ras Shamra library,
religion,
Sectarians,
Semitic,
Shabako stone,
Sumerian,
Syria,
the Flood,
the Nile,
Ugarit,
uniformity,
Yeb,
Zadok,
Zadokites
33 pp., a typed transcript of a talk given on February 24, 1965. A discussion of the religious and cultural impact of Egypt, Babylon and other neighbors on events in Israel. — Midgley Listen to recording: Part 1 Part 2 [Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3] This recording is also …
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October 25, 1963 by •
Catholic(s) Church,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
Christopher Columbus,
Constantine (Emperor),
Crusades,
Emperor,
God,
Gregory,
Holy peace,
Islam,
Jerome,
Jerusalem,
Jerusalem earthly,
Jerusalem heavenly,
Jews,
Justinian,
Mormon(s),
Mosque of Omar,
Omar,
Palestine,
peace holy,
peace pilgrimage,
pilgrimage peace,
Popes,
Protestant(s),
Reformation,
Rome,
Salidan,
temple(s),
the Law,
wealth
18 pp. typed transcript of a talk given on October 25, 1963. 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.