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Volume 46 No. 4 Winter 2013 DIALOGUE 381209 Po Box MA 02238 Cambridge, Serviceelectronic Requested Clark.Indd 1 EDITORS EDITOR Kristine L 1/8/14 10:33 PM volume 46 no. 4 winter 2013 DIALOGUE 381209 po box MA 02238 Cambridge, serviceelectronic requested Clark.indd 1 EDITORS EDITOR Kristine L. Haglund, Belmont, MA DIALOGUE WEB EDITOR Emily W. Jensen, Ogden, UT a journal of mormon thought ASSOCIATE EDITOR Matthew B. Bowman, Arlington, VA REVIEWS Melissa Madsen Fox, Russell Arben Fox, Wichita, KS INTERNATIONAL Ronan James Head, Malvern, England Dialogue continues, in “the patience of hope and the labor of love.” (JST, Hebrews HISTORY Stephen Taysom, Shaker Heights, OH 6:10). We could not do this work without your sustaining help. We are grateful for SCIENCE Steven Peck, Provo, UT your financial generosity and, most of all, for your good will and friendship. POETRY Tyler Chadwick, Pocatello, ID Robert Aagard Richard J. 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The journal encour- ages a variety of viewpoints; although every effort is made to ensure accurate scholarship and responsible judgment, the views express- ed are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily those of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or of the editors. ii DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no. 4 (Winter 2013) Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is published quarterly by the Dia- logue Foundation. Dialogue has no official connection with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Contents copyright by the Dialogue Foundation. ISSN 0012–2157. Dialogue is available in full text in elec- tronic form at www.dialoguejournal.com and is archived by the Univer- sity of Utah Marriott Library Special Collections, available online at www.lib.utah.edu/portal/site/marriottlibrary. Dialogue is also available on microforms through University Microfilms International, www. umi.com, and online at dialoguejournal.com. Dialogue welcomes articles, essays, poetry, notes, fiction, letters to the editor, and art. Submissions should follow the current Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions should be in Word and may be submitted electroni- cally at https://dialoguejournal.com/submissions/. For submissions of visual art, please contact [email protected]. Allow eight to twelve weeks for review of all submissions. Submissions published in the journal, including letters to the editor, are covered by our publication policy, https://dialoguejournal.com/sub- missions/publication-policy/, under which the author retains the copy- right of the work and grants Dialogue permission to publish. See www. dialoguejournal.com. EDITORS EMERITI Eugene England and G. Wesley Johnson Robert A. Rees Mary Lythgoe Bradford Linda King Newell and L. Jackson Newell F. Ross Peterson and Mary Kay Peterson Martha Sonntag Bradley and Allen D. Roberts Neal Chandler and Rebecca Worthen Chandler Karen Marguerite Moloney Levi S. Peterson DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no. 4 (Winter 2013) CONTENTS ARTICLES & ESSAYS Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations: Text, Impact, and Evolution William V. Smith 1 Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics Seth Payne 85 PERSONAL VOICES What Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry Michael Austin 122 POETRY Soul as Seen by Joseph Smith Ronald Wilcox 143 Jungle Walks Mark Penny 144 INTERVIEWS AND CONVERSATIONS An Interview with Rabbi Harold Kushner Greg A. Prince 146 FICTION The Gift of Tongues Annette Haws 176 REVIEWS Matter Made Graciously Present Adam S. Miller. Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Ob- ject-Oriented Theology Benjamin Peters and John Durham Peters 190 iii iv DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no.4 (Winter 2013) The ISPP Way and the Navajo Way Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, and Sarah E. Burak. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy Patricia Karamesines 197 Eternal Families: Persecution Days or Rapture? Jenn Ashworth. The Friday Gospels Julie J. Nichols 206 Not a Rigid Framework Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds. War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives Rachel Esplin Odell 213 FROM THE PULPIT Ode to Joy! Robert A. Rees 222 CONTRIBUTORS 230 ARTICLES AND ESSAYS Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations: Text, Impact, and Evolution William V. Smith Introduction Joseph Smith’s revelation texts carved out a complex system of ranks, offices, jurisdictions, and judicial bodies that implicitly re- jected the feminization of Protestantism, while forwarding a selec- tive blend of biblical terminology, Book of Mormon-defined praxis, and antebellum legalisms in organizing an exclusively male “priesthood” structure.1 The purpose of this paper is to examine some early Mormon revelation texts on priesthood, to begin to understand those texts in the context of their time and place, and to brief ly observe how those texts inf luenced later Mormonism.2 The textual founda- tions of Mormon liturgy are not just the seed of praxis, they also created doctrine, even if some of it was temporary. Joseph Smith’s narrative of angelic visits and handbook-like revelations system- atized and organized a hierarchy that gradually became self-sus- taining even through the shock wave of his own death. His apos- tolic successors took these durable texts and fading memories of early contexts to form an ever-evolving picture of governmental structure that paralleled reinterpretations of the purposes of that structure.3 The essential texts and innovations that outlined and gener- ated this evolution began with the 1830 Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ. This initial text was followed by the ordina- tion of a Church bishop in 1831. The nature of this office and those established in 1830 caused difficulties in understanding 1 2 DIALOGUE: AJOURNAL OF MORMON THOUGHT, 46, no.
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