[…] a strong tradition of speculative theology, I want to explain some of my objectives and methods in writing this essay. My chief purpose is to make symbolic connections, to evoke families of images, and […]
[…] by officially recognizing the resource that women healers represent. I conclude by urging a broadening of women’s service. The Precedents for Mormon Women Healers Since the founding of Mormonism, women have constituted an important […]
Dialogue 23.3 (Fall 1990): 79–95
MOST RESEARCH BY MORMON FEMINISTS has been historical in nature. Proponents of greater power and privilege for women cite as precedents the lives of Huldah and Deborah of the Old Testament, the treatment of women by Jesus Christ, or the activities of pioneer women in the early restored Church.
[…] In both churches the Apostles and First Presidency are “called” from among the priesthood leadership into full-time service. In the LDS church, these General Authorities enter into lifetime service. In the RLDS Church, the […]
[…] matter may be largely history, philosophy, and tract, but if that triumvirate must stand adumbrated by creative writing, then Alfred’s Orosius, Browne’s Religio Medici, and Paine’s Common Sense must all go by the boards. […]
[…] book. He sees theistic humanism as the “authentic spirit of the Mormon religion” (p. 111). Theo logical writing seldom so candidly recognizes that the extent of God’s glorification has had, theologically, an equal and […]
[…] or discover the holy and transcendant in a secular world? Here Bishop Robinson leans heavily on the writings of the late Paul Tillich. Frankly parting company with the idea of God as a supreme person, […]
CHARLOTTE CONDIE’s {[email protected]} work focuses on life and love against the backdrop of Latter-Day Saint community and culture, its triumphs, and its challenges. My personal wrestle with the Divine and life with scrupulosity informs my…
[…] wrote the Pentateuch as we have it today, or that Moses didn’t have anything to do with writing it, that it was solely the work of later Hebrew writers. Let me discuss the latter […]
[…] characterized by change and revision in past decades. New points of view are responsible for much re writing of history. But if that is the major source of modification, historical composition, like current theology, […]