February 22, 1995 by •
Acts of Thomas,
Adam,
adversary,
anamnesis,
apocrypha,
Canonical writings,
Christian(s),
Coptic Christians,
Council in Heaven,
creation(s),
creation(s) drama(s),
devil(s),
earth,
endless expansion,
eternal progression,
faithful,
Father of Lights,
Gabriel,
garment,
God,
God's Plan,
Great Assembly King,
Guardians,
house boat Light,
Hymn of the Pearl,
in Heaven,
Jesus,
Jews,
matter,
Melchizedek,
Meritorious actions,
Michael,
obedience,
ordinances,
Pistis Sophia,
Plan of Creation,
Sent One(s),
Sons of Light,
Sun-bird,
the Elect,
The LORD,
the Phoenix,
the plan,
the Scriptures,
the Son of God,
the Temple,
Treasury of Light,
Two Ways,
Urstoff,
veil of light,
Watchers,
world(s)
“Treasures in the Heavens: Some Early Christian Insights into the Organizing of Worlds,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8:3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1974): 76-98. Reprinted in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 1978): 49-84; CWHN 1:171-214. A complex and rich study of the cosmology of the Christian world, which is compared …
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December 2, 1983 by •
Analiza Brigham Young,
apostles,
appearances,
awesome,
Babylon,
beauty,
Bible,
Book of Mormon,
Brigham Young,
Christian(s),
condition of the heart,
darkness,
destruction,
division,
Enoch,
equal,
eternal life,
eternal order,
goal,
God,
Heavenly City,
Holy land,
Holy place(s),
invulnerable,
Jerusalem,
Jesus Christ,
Jewish,
Joseph Smith,
kingdom(s) of God,
money,
Mormon(s),
New Education Jerusalem,
obedient,
one heart,
one mind,
peace,
perfection,
power(s),
pure in heart,
purity,
refuge,
rhetoric,
Roman,
safety,
sanctify,
Satan,
sin,
society,
temple(s),
terror,
the Gospel,
The LORD,
the poor,
the Prophets,
the Saints,
the world,
treason,
truth,
Two Ways,
type of,
virtue(s),
Way of Darkness,
Way of Light,
wealth,
wicked,
wickedness,
Zion
“What is Zion? A Distant View,” in What Is Zion? Joseph Smith Lecture Series, 1972-1973 (Provo: BYU Press, 1973): 1-21; CWHN 9:25-62. This talk, originally given in 1973, was circulated prior to publication as “Waiting for Zion,” typed typescript, 34 pp., d.s. A passionate treatment of one of Nibley’s favorite themes. — 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