Eternal Marriage in Early Mormon Marital BeliefsFirst page of articledoi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1990.tb00798.xM. Guy BishopJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdHistorian
Tom Hanks dubs Mormon's support for gay marriage ban 'Un-American' Romney's upcoming speech on "Faith in America" will not dwell at any length on Mormon theology. People of a certain faith can rarely make much sense out of beliefs that have emerged from a different tradition. Religion tak...
1.An ancient prophet believed to have compiled a sacred history of the Americas, which was translated and published by Joseph Smith as the Book of Mormon in 1830. 2.A member of the Mormon Church. Also calledLatter-day Saint. adj.
“. . . I struggled greatly to decide what was ultimately more important–my spiritual beliefs that were precious and to my heart or my own self-worth and dignity that would be preserved by honoring the truth of what happened in the bishops office that night. There was no right answer in...
Should Mormons be feared because of their beliefs The fashioning of the new vision of goods in Mormondom required of its participants, and can divulge to its students, a fundamental reordering of the relationship between personal possessions and individual identities. The changes in thinking about ma...
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But there are also narrower definitions of Christianity where Mormon beliefs can be problematic. In Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism, for example, there's the belief of the Trinity as a single Godhead manifested as three persons: God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit (the ...
Parallelomania: What modern Mo-pologists (Mormon apologists) try to do---find "parallels" between ancient, obscure belief systems that match roughly to Mormon beliefs, and use that to claim that Moism is "true." Particles of Faith: The selective bits of doctrine believed by cafeteria Morm...
But he believes deeply that the most cherished views — about marriage, gender roles, God’s will — should be able to withstand scrutiny. “It’s never comfortable having a mirror held up to you and to your beliefs, but I think that there is something important to be lear...
s beliefs were internalized by individuals and shaped the way they expressed their personal desires, especially within the intimate domain, it was essential to probe the family system as a holistic institution that is organized around interdependency of family members and their membership within a ...