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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December 2, 1970 by •
Abraham,
American Prophet,
Avebury,
Book of Mormon,
cosmos,
Eduard Meyer,
Egyptian(s),
Eric Hornung,
Hopi,
Hotevilla,
Joseph Smith,
ordinances,
scholar(s),
temple(s),
Year-Rite
Address given on 4 December 1999 at BYU.
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
March 20, 1968 by •
Abraham,
Abraham literature,
Book of Abraham,
Book of Mormon,
Book of the Dead,
cosmological,
Egypt,
Egyptian,
Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar,
Egyptian papyri,
Egyptologists,
Enoch,
facsimiles,
Idrisi,
Joseph Smith,
Kirtland,
Mormon(s),
Osiris,
papryi,
Pearl of Great Price,
scholar(s),
Sen-Sen fragment,
Stone of Righteousness,
symbols,
the critic(s),
Urim and Thummim
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3:2 (Summer 1968): 99-105. This essay concerns the debate over the Joseph Smith Papyri and the bulk of the number contains materials on this issue. — 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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June 2, 1965 by •
ancient civilization,
Arab(s),
Babylonian(s),
Cicero,
conceited,
entertainment,
Hajji Baba,
intellectual,
knowledge,
orators,
persuasion,
philosophy,
Protagoras,
rhetor,
rhetoric,
scholar(s),
self-interest,
Socrates,
Sophistry,
Sophists,
spoiled
“Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Fall of Everything Else,” Western Speech 20:2 (Spring 1956):57-82; CWHN 10:243-286. A study of the rhetoric of the second Sophistic movement and its influence on politics and culture generally, with obvious significance for our own time because of remarkable parallel developments in the current world of business, …
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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 …
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July 2, 1960 by •
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
covenant(s),
Ephraim,
Ezekiel,
Gentiles,
God,
Hebrew(s),
Israel,
Jehovah,
Jesus Christ,
Jews,
Joseph Smith,
Judah,
Lord Jehovah,
Mohammed,
New Education Testament,
Old Testament,
resurrection,
scholar(s),
scrolls,
shevet,
shivite,
stick of Joseph,
stick of Judah,
sticks,
wood,
writing
a series of articles in The Improvement Era, 1953; CWHN 8:1-48. An examination of the meaning of Ezekiel 37 in the light of the use of tally sticks. — Midgley