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Volume 29, No. 1

Spring 1996

Articles/Essays

Guest Editor’s Introduction

Armand L. Mauss

The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020

Lawrence A. Young

The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020

Lowell C. Ben Bennion

Membership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment

Gary Shepherd

Membership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment

Gordon Shepherd

Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century

Karl C. Sandberg

Science and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future

David H. Bailey

Dialogue 29.1 (Spring 1996): 80–97
Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, or progressivism? Will the church be able to retain its large contingent of professional scientists?