[…] 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.
<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 read […]
[…] opposed to most other Christians, Latter-day Saints believe that the fall from innocence was fortunate, not tragic. 6 The reason is that it was necessary for Adam and Eve to leave their cloistered garden […]
[…] Latter-day Saints has been burgeoning both in LDS and national markets—so much so that it is difficult for literary critics to keep up with this growing body of novels, plays, poetry, and literary nonfiction. […]
<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?”
[…] 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 […]
[…] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/racism-in-church-of-england-officials-apologize-for-decades-of-racism-in-uk-against-windrush-generation/. Nadine White, “Catholic Church Unveils Black Mary and Jesus Posters in Anti-Racism Drive,” The Independent, Feb. 6, 2023, https://news.yahoo.com/catholic-church-unveils-black-mary-203139630.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall. Nicole Winfield, “Pope Makes Historic Indigenous Apology for Canada Abuses,” AP News, Apr. 1, […]
[…] the First and Second Manifestos. Despite church leaders arguring that no plural marriages were happening, there is evidence to support the fact that both church members and church leaders were entering into new plural marriages.
[…] that some LDS women are attempting to create a “style of their own” and influ-ence others to buy into that style. Women have organized and par-ticipated in ward and stake “modest fashion shows,” as […]