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
Articles
Foolsmate
Klaus J. Hansen’s review of Doyle L. Fitzpatrick’s The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island King in the Spring 1971 Dialogue is the latest manifestation of a currently popular scholarly perspective on Mormonism which is most easily recognized by its emphasis on “the political kingdom of God.”
Read moreThoughts on Mormon “Neoorthodoxy”
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!
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
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.