The Same Pattern of an Inevitable Tension between Philosophical Mystics & Controlling Dogmatists, Repeats Itself in both the Bible and in Mormonism:

• Priests versus the Poetic Prophets

• Jesus' Way versus the Pharisees' Tradition of the Elders 

• Paul versus Peter, James, and the "super apostles"

• Authentic letters of Paul versus disputed letters of Paul

• Gospel of Mark vs. Gospel of John

• Erasmus versus Luther

• Rigdon vs. David Whitmer

• Joseph Smith versus William Law

• Orson Pratt versus Brigham

• BH Roberts vs. The Brethren 

• McConkey vs. Eugene England

• Rock Waterman (emphasizing the Word) versus Brethrenism (emphasizing the Handbook)