Shortly before the dedication of the London England Temple, Hugh Nibley wrote a path-breaking article for the â??Millennial Starâ? titled â??The Idea of the Temple in History.â? Itâ??s been republished a number of times since, often under the title of â??What is a Temple?â? (it is online at rsc.byu.edu/archived/selected-articles/what-temple).
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout Utah prepare to mark the rededication of the massively renovated Ogden Utah Temple later this month, it seems appropriate to call attention, once again, to that now classic 1958 article, and to some of the temple-related scholarship that Nibley and other Latter-day Saint researchers have produced since its original appearance.
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