Adam’s Navel
April 16, 2018[…] that future discoveries or better analysis will show that both versions are saying the same thing: the order of creation in Genesis 1 follows the broad outlines of the scientific version; the “days” are […]
[…] that future discoveries or better analysis will show that both versions are saying the same thing: the order of creation in Genesis 1 follows the broad outlines of the scientific version; the “days” are […]
[…] implications of modern science for Mormon theology, a short review of some recent scientific developments is in order. It is, of course, impossible in this limited space to completely explore these discoveries, but I […]
[…] but also at the core of law. In a society such as ours that aspires to balance order and freedom through established processes, law both institutionalizes and facilitates changes in the way we view ourselves […]
Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 39–60 Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 31–55 In many respects the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of the 1960s mirrored the general tumult, if not the details, of the larger American society.
Mormonism, America’s unique religious manifestation, has a remark able past. Nourished on the spectacular, the faith can count heroic martyrs, epic treks, and seemingly supernatural manifestations. Deep in the Mormon psyche is an attraction […]
To comprehend the potential emergence of Mormonism as a major religious force in the twenty-first century, it is essential to comprehend the missionary ideology and practices of the LDS church. For rank-and-file Latter-day Saints, […]
[…] which it appeared in Matthew—in spite of the fact that contexts in Matthew are always exceedingly appropriate—in order to re-insert it into a different context of Mark having no special appropriateness.[12] A simpler way […]
[…] tail-end of one of God’s fleeting thoughts. Such a word would explode all boundaries, establish a new order in language, break trail for a Mormon literature as great as Milton’s or Shakespeare’s. But of […]
[…] of eco nomic righteousness usually referred to by rubrics such as “consecration and stewardship” or the “united order.” The concept that the restored gospel addresses social as well as personal righteousness has carried into […]