The Theology of Desire
March 21, 2018[…] to me 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 […]
[…] to me 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 […]
Dialogue 45.3 (Fall 2012): 70–83 I will be talking today about how women fit into the functional structure of LDS church governance; but, unlike many of the others speaking today, I do not have […]
Dialogue 50.3 (Fall 2017): 89–115 I thus argue that Mormonism exists wherever there is belief in the Book of Mormon, even though many adherents reject the term “Mormonism” to distance themselves from the LDS […]
[…] England shares his reasons for why Joseph Smith introduced polygamy and then removed it as one of the commandments. England argues that polygamy was a faith testing experience which lead them to in his […]
[…] implementation. In some ways the debate over the nature of and relationships between Consecration and Stewardship, United Order, capitalism, and modern economy resembles that of Book of Mormon geography: there are more proposed “mappings” […]
[…] for example, if a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or infertile. Assuming that “men cannot contain themselves,” in order to avoid wasting semen, “hence they can marry several women.”[7] Anabaptist polygamy met with difficulty. Forced […]
[…] setting, polygyny is not a practice to project into the eternities as the basis for a celestial order. Heaven is, by definition, a place where the cultural limitations and historical peculiarities of earth-life no […]
During the early 1840S, founding Mormon prophet Joseph Smith introduced members of his young church to the ordinances of baptism for the dead (1840), eternal marriage (1841), and eternal proxy marriage (1842). These ordinances, […]
[…] the sons of Aaron only. Earlier still, it was not even necessary to be a Levite in order to be a priest. Any man could be a priest, provided that he had been properly […]
On March 10, 1844, Mormon founder Joseph Smith preached a sermon after the burial of his friend King Follett, killed by accidental rock-fall while building a well. To an assembled crowd of his followers, […]