[…] being, actuality, or existence, one must also conclude that God must possess something analogous to what we call intellect and will as well as justice, mercy, and love. See Feser, Five Proofs, 169–248. Moreover, […]
[…] in this country, was conspicuously marked by achievements and honors. He wrote five novels, three books devoted to the history of the West, a classic study of Mark Twain, a stimulating study on the […]
[…] (Spring 2020): 129–142</i><br>Interview with Brittany Mangelson who is a full-time minister for Community of Christ. She has a master of arts in religion from Graceland University and works as a social media seeker ministry specialist.
[…] in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when they encountered pro […]
[…] spotlight by the Sonia Johnson affair, perhaps the least well understood was the LDS notion of “excommunication.” To non-Mormons the process seemed, in Phil Donahue’s widely heard characterization, a “medieval”, anachronism. On the Mormon […]
[…] similar projects during the 1960s. I was one of those fortunate enough to receive such a letter— now no longer operative but glued in my scrapbook as proof of an attitude that once prevailed. […]
[…] common understanding of the Bible in his time and place, not aware that biblical scholarship would soon call these traditions into serious question. Thus he and his fellow Mormons operated with an uncritical, literal […]
<i>Dialogue 23.2 (1990): 61–83</i><br> Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
[…] historical analysis of the globalization of the Church. Under President David O McKay, the Church was able to reach out to more people beyond North America and Europe, which led to an increase in […]
<i>Dialogue 28.4 (Winter 1995): 105–119</i><br> This was a prelude to his book-length treatment Same-Sex Dynamics in 19th C. America: A Mormon Example, that looked at “intimacy” broadly defined, before the rise of homophobia in the post-WWII […]