[…] attack on polygamy, in a number of instances subtly invited assaults on the “relic of barbarism” in order to shield an institution of infinitely greater significance for Mormon history, the political Kingdom of God. […]
[…] philosophy, religion and ethics, parish administration, the present expansion of Christianity, and ethical issues in the social order. He wrote home, “Theological education in America is practically oriented and practical theology dominates American Christianity. […]
[…] limited to the Church. (6) The Council’s functions were threefold: To create among the Saints a political order after the fashion of the coming kingdom of God (i.e., a theocracy, or as some L.D.S. […]
[…] the world. “The other great purpose of the Church is to translate truth into a better social order or, in other words, to make our religion effective in the individual lives of men and […]
[…] is no sharp bifurcation of reality into the natural and supernatural, with the result that the natural order described by time and space is continuous and includes both God and man (Doctrine & Covenants […]
[…] one sense the spirit of ultimacy so characteristic of the nineteenth century—the ideal of an ultimate universal order, an ultimate law giver, ultimate cultural coherence, ultimate goodness or progress, ultimate meaning to life, or […]
[…] community at large to change the law. The objective was not the overthrow of the established legal order by revolution, but rather reform. King’s nonviolent demonstrations, freedom rides, and sit-ins in violation of state […]
[…] General Authorities to some Sunday School teachers, are generally impressed with and concerned about “scientific proof” of the Book of Mormon. As a practicing scientist and Church member, I am singularly unconcerned about such […]
For the better part of a month, I was with a group of young Mormons bent on giving the Church a vigorous expression in all the arts. We were not very clear as to […]
[…] discussion of the issues he raises. Usually, however, an abashed silence has followed his scholarly contributions. In order to see what he is up to in the closing portion of Since Cumorah, which is […]