[…] any traditional society under the stress of acculturation, attempting the task of, in Peter Berger’s phrase, “ world maintenance” while trying to define a new twentieth-century Mormonism within an increasingly pluralistic society. Under these […]
[…] role of ideology (belief/ doctrine) in securing full commitment. Ideological indoctrination creates a separate moral and intellectual world for the believer, which helps insulate him/her from external influences and at the same time facilitates […]
[…] arms race as part of a search for viable public myths, we are on the way to breaking out of the trap of pseudomyths held as literal facts. We take a step back from […]
[…] I’m not ashamed to own my Lord Or to defend his cause, Maintain the honor of his world, The glory of his cross. Jesus, my God, I know his name: His name is all […]
[…] . We have been blessed with much knowledge by revelation from God which, in some part, the world lacks. But there is an incomprehensibly greater part of truth which we must yet discover. Our […]
[…] that run throughout it: the impetus of desire for human connection and for joining two seemingly disparate worlds. In this aforementioned image, she places God in that space of desire, a lovely reversal and […]
[…] of our physical universe, or was it implemented by intelligent beings? Further, what is the consequence of breaking a physical law? There is always a natural physical consequence. But what is the consequence of […]
[…] restored to his original standing. A year later Gisbert and Elsie welcomed their second child into the world. The “Certificates of Blessing” show that neither child was blessed by Gisbert. In June 1911, a […]
[…] earth “from a more exalted sphere” with eyes that see “through a glass, darkly” and perceive the world in terms of explicit separateness or opposites (what in Christian parlance we term “the Fall”), but […]
[…] spokesmen for the Church. But now comes Mr. Udall with some pertinent observations designed to let the world know that all Mormons are not unenlightened die-hards. It’s too bad the world doesn’t know that […]