[…] of agency as creative synthesis is consistent with the Mormon idea that persons freely shape their character over time. For unless choices both arise from and influence the agent’s character, no such character development […]
<i>Dialogue 38 .4 (Winter 2006):83–104</i><br>Thus, regardless of how one chooses to resolve the issues surrounding its origins, one must conclude that the Book of Mormon’s theological arguments should be seen as designed to be […]
[…] controversy hinges on the question of when the spirit enters the body. If a spirit were predestined for a given mortalbody and that body is aborted before birth, the spirit would, technically,never be able […]
<i>Dialogue 43.2 (Summer 2010): 1–44</i><br> A discussion of the theology of the body being combined with the spirit for various different reasons.
[…] values. That is, without the advancements in the medical, social and psychological sciences that have taken place over the past century and absent the extensive and clarifying knowledge and vocabulary on the subject available […]
<i>Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44</i><br>Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] mailed to members throughout the Church. Congregational leaders were not required to make a correction or apology over the pulpit, and many members continued to feel justified in their belief that dark skin in […]
<i>Dialogue 18 .1 (Spring 1985): 9–105</i><br> Quinn shares that even with the Manifesto that officially ended plural marriage, plural marriages were still happening in the church between the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church […]
[…] of a rime when she was accompanied by a male pianist. They worked together on the piece for some weeks; and finally, when they performed, the ecstatic release, the sense of the flowing together […]
<i>Dialogue 47.4 (Winter 2014): 47–83</i><br>This study examines online Mormon feminists’ identities and beliefs and their responses to the Mormon Digital Awakening. This is the first published survey of online Mormon feminists, which gathered quantitative […]