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Mormon Theological Ethics – Obedience to Authority
Theological ethics are derived from conceptions of the divine and are, in part, an effort to identify divine mandates and human obligations meant to serve a transcendent purpose. The work of Thomas...
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God’s Hiding Places: Four Pavilions (Part 1)
O God where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place? (D&C 121:1) This is the beginning of Joseph’s impassioned prayer in Liberty Jail as he sat in the helpless dark,...
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Infallible Proofs: Interpreting the Temple Endowment as Mystical Rhetoric
*Author’s Note: An earlier version of this address was presented at the annual Mormon Scholars in the Humanities conference, March 15, 2013 at Brigham Young University. The Latter-day Saint temple...
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Order of the Days of Creation
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth Some assume the creation story described in the opening chapter of the Bible is a literal description how the universe unfolded. Efforts have...
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Adjusting the Narrative: Part 2b – On Disavowed Theories
A (much delayed) continuation of the the series “Adjusting the Narrative”, initially begun as a proposed response to the new header to Official Declaration 2 in the 2013 edition of the Doctrine and...
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Miller Eccles Study Group – Texas Edition: The Mundane and the Sublime in...
Michelangelo, Pieta [A]ll good things…come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy. – Norman Maclean[1] This last Sunday, the teacher in Elders Quorum relayed some experiences he’d...
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