Dialogue 27.3 (Fall 1994): 68–97
For faithful Mormons, the thought that someone had violated the sacred confines of the eighteen-year-old Salt Lake temple, which he desecrated by photographing, was “considered as impossible as profaning […]
[…] this conclusion by asking—and himself answering—the following ten questions: Is the Bible the final source of authority for Mormonism? Does Mormonism teach the spirituality of God? Does Mormonism believe in one God? Does Mormonism […]
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[…] the late 1960s I was invited to prepare a chapter on the religious development of college students for a commissioned handbook of research on religious development edited by M. P. Strommen (Research on Religious […]