Gordon C. Thomasson
GORDON C. THOMASSON, Associate Editor of Dialogue, recently completed an M.A. degree in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently beginning Ph.D. work at Cornell University using an interdisciplinary approach to the study of non-Western Religious Education. He is co-author of an article, "Religious Education," which will appear in the 1974 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Thoughts on Mormon “Neoorthodoxy”
Articles/Essays – Volume 05, No. 4
The two following commentaries on O. Kendall White’s “The Transformation of Mormon Theology” (Summer 1970) were received as Letters to the Editor, but due to their length we felt they would receive more attention here.
Read moreThe Manifesto Was a Victory!
Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 1
Dialogue 6.1 (Spring 1971): 37–45
Thomasson argues that because the church did not give in to the federal government regarding Renyolds v United States, even though it might not look like it, he believes the Manifesto was a victory.
Responses and Perspectives: Lester Bush’s Historical Overview: Other Perspectives
Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 1
Dialogue 8.1 (Spring 1973): 62–72
Responding to Bush, Thomasson wrote in response to Lester Bush’s Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Review which that article caused him to reflect on what he believes and so it became to be very valuable for him personally.