[…] mid-1600s which have survived to the present. Going even further than the warring Anglicans and Puritans in breaking with the beliefs and practices of Roman Catholicism, the Quakers adopted the position that the ultimate […]
[…] descent created for leaders living in areas with a significant black population. In these parts of the world, the priesthood issue was much more than an occasional embarrassment or a matter for theological debate. […]
[…] politics than Lutherans have. Luther’s Two Kingdom theory—that the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of the world coexist, but separately—applied Christianity more directly to personal ethics than to social ethics, and allowed a […]
[…] had once lived. The young wives became matriarchs, raising large families within their towns, fearful of the world beyond and its alien language. Then the Mexicans came to follow this pattern of immigrant experience. […]
[…] generated particularly confusing perplexities. Muslim communities have long histories of resistance to Christian intrusions. Unlike other great world religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, Islam was a bearer of civilization to far-flung regions of […]
[…] each other as unique, irreplaceable, and multi-dimensional daughters of God? Tied closely to the relief found by breaking free of cardboard labels and the expectations of nebulous “others” is the quest for relief from […]
[…] by that I am not involved in counseling with those who have broken or who are contemplating breaking the law of chastity, encouraging new members of the ward in initial interviews to be forthcoming […]
[…] to be scholars or national leaders; that was simply not a prominent issue in the rigidly defined world of Israelite society. But in Henry’s own era, women were beginning to envision a different world […]
[…] article Leslie Norris, one of Evenson’s colleagues in BYU’s English department, said, “Brian has created a whole world…. It is a world where people work very hard, yet everything is purposeless. His great gift […]
[…] stories will be remembered longer. Why? Because they grow out of and support many Mormons’ beliefs, their world view. This essay grows out of four observations we have made regarding the way Mormons tell […]