[…] Ritual Ritual serves both to mark accession to membership and to maintain a sense of group identity.[ 6] A number of rituals are important in the Mormon context: Blessing and naming of children, baptism, confirmation, […]
[…] an italicized reminder that “stable and sound persons are never fanatics; they do not ride gospel hobbies.”[ 6] Ironically, Elder McConkie’s sweeping pronouncements in his 1980 address on “The Seven Deadly Heresies”[7] appear to […]
[…] (Summer 1984): 96–105 In 1979 and 1981, members of the Roberts family gave copies of these works to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. Roberts’s two studies, with descriptive correspondence, will be […]
[…] a single attribute of personality, for as Karl Barth noted, the absolute is “Totally Other Than” persons.[ 6] The absolute necessarily possesses the qualities by which it is characterized unconditionally and perfectly. Traditionally, the […]
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Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 11–16 Delegates of the 1970 conference moved to adopt a resolution which stated that women constituted a majority of the church membership but had limited opportunity to act as representatives.
[…] the babies born in our ward in the last few years, including both of mine, have weighed over ten pounds. Now I just wonder.) Sometimes, they fumble with the vocabulary for awhile: “crapped up” […]
[…] now still living, was born on 31 May 1889. When he was fifteen, in 1904, Father started to farm on his own in Idaho. Hitler was then a choirboy in Austria, avidly aspiring to […]
[…] holy and just wars, he effectively destroyed any spiritual rationale we might entertain for waging recent wars.[ 6] In an un settling paper, Ronald W. Walker reported the debates and pronouncements by leading LDS […]