Performative Theology: Not Such a New Thing
November 4, 2020[…] to find the treasure hidden in a field of Matthew 13:44 is to find Christ; and to buy the field and make it one’s own at the price of all that one has is […]
[…] to find the treasure hidden in a field of Matthew 13:44 is to find Christ; and to buy the field and make it one’s own at the price of all that one has is […]
[…] be a great “beast” rise to power which will create an economic monopoly in which “no man might buy or sell” without its mark. Moroni talks about a similar “secret combination” in the latter days […]
<i>Dialogue 53.2 (Summer 2020): 57–106</i><br> Although Smith desired to publish the new translation, circumstances were such that publication at that time was not possible.
<i>Dialogue 51. 3 (Fall 2018): 185–192</i><br>“As much we may hope that one would disregard the explicitly racial teachings of the past, the significance of corporeality in the Mormon imagination is such that Mormonism’s racial […]
<i>Dialogue 51. 3 (Fall 2018): 201–208</i><br> “What can we do to help and make a difference in the fight for racial and social justice?” McCoy responds to the BYU students who asked these questions […]
<i>Dialogue 50.2 (Summer 2017): 1–52</i><br> “What do We know of God’s Will for his LGBT Children?: An Examination of the LDS church’s position on homosexuality” divides it up into a “doctrinal, moral, and empirical […]
[…] 49.4 (Winter 2016): 87–108</i><br> The history behind a letter that was written by missionary Jedediah Morgan Grant to Joseph Smith, which contained information about Susan Hough Conrad and her brief love writings with a […]
[…] toward the brothel stairway. “If I worked up there, I’d have a room to myself. I could buy nice clothes. But I can’t. I won’t.” Reeves stared at his feet. A stitched pattern decorated […]
[…] tithing that returns many fold in the hour of need, the talk of tithing as our best buy in insurance, or the distasteful joke about it as personal fire insurance; that we hear the […]
<i>Dialogue 2.4 (Winter 1967): 19–40</i><br>In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.