Footnotes
For more on the Nauvoo lyceum, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 2 Feb. 1841.
John 4:24.
Accounts of Meeting and Discourse, 5 Jan. 1841. For more on the evolution of ideas concerning the corporeality of God in early Christianity, see Paulsen, “Early Christian Belief in a Corporeal Deity,” 105–116.
Paulsen, David L. “Early Christian Belief in a Corporeal Deity: Origen and Augustine as Reluctant Witnesses.” Harvard Theological Review 83, no. 2 (Apr. 1990): 105–116.
McIntire’s notebook lists Alexander Badlam, Samuel Smith, and Theodore Turley as the first three speakers. They spoke on “Machanical Powers & utility,” virtue, and the “Results of Eivel,” respectively. (McIntire, Notebook, [11].)
McIntire, William Patterson. Notebook, 1840–1845. CHL. MS 1014.
For more information on dating in McIntire’s notebook, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, ca. 2 Feb. 1841.