Stanley J. Thayne and Dr. J. Spencer Fluhman; Church History and Doctrine Since Mormonism’s exodus from New York and Pennsylvania, due to what Joseph Smith described as a “spirit of persecution” in the area, popular perceptions among many locals have been anything but positive. “It is a fact, of which we are not particularly proud, […]
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A Response to Douglas Davies’s Mormon Culture of Salvation The Latter-day Saint Doctrine of Grace
Cory Walker and Dr. David Paulsen, Philosophy The doctrine of salvation by grace has been a much discussed and differently interpreted aspect of Latter-day Saint theology both within the general membership of the Church and outside it. A recent, in-depth treatment of Latter-day Saint views and cultural traditions regarding salvation, written by prominent religious scholar […]
The Mormon Doctrine of Deification
David J. Linthorst and Dr. David L. Paulsen, Philosophy My experience as an ORCA grant recipient has been an interesting one. The focus and direction of my work has changed a few times as I have attempted to direct my efforts towards meaningful research that would be useful to the greater body of work that […]
LIKE FATHER, LIKE GOD: A STUDY OF MATE SELECTION AMONG YOUNG MORMON COUPLES
April Mitchell, Family Sciences, Kelly Welker, Psychology, Amy Whisenant, Family Sciences, Dr. Thomas B. Holman In the social sciences, qualitative research methods have recently become widely used due to the difficulty of measuring social, phenomena quantitatively. Thus, our analyses were qualitative, following the grounded theory method as articulated by Strauss and Corbin (1990). The steps […]
CONSTRUCTING A STEMMA FOR THE LDS BOOK OF MORMON, 1879-1911
Adam Neilan Davis and Dr. Royal Skousen, International Studies During the period 1879-1911, seven editions of the Book of Mormon were published by or for the LDS Church. Each contains a significant number of variants which aid the researcher in establishing a history of relationships between various texts, otherwise known as a stemma. My research […]
Mormon Buddhists or Buddhist Mormons?
J. Sawat Selway and Dr. James A. Toronto, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Culture affects every religion. Mexican Catholics are different from Italian Catholics in their liturgy; Iranian Muslims are much stricter than Albanian Muslims in their attitude toward women; and Japanese Buddhists emphasize meditation more than Indian Buddhists. The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
Mormonism and the Concept of a Temporal Deity: The Beckwith- Parrish Dilemma
Jeremy B. Pettit and Dr. David L. Paulsen, Philosophy In their book The Mormon Concept of God1, evangelical scholars Francis Beckwith and Stephen Parrish (hereafter referred to as BP) present several critiques of what they understand to be the Latterday Saint (LDS) concept of God which they claim is philosophically implausible. The majority of their […]
The Book of Mormon: A Handbook of Hope for the Apocalypse
Nathan Lindsay and Dr. Steven C. Walker, English “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” With this line Robert Frost summed up the world’s uncertainty concerning the new Millennium. For thousands of years people have contemplated and philosophized about the end of the world. Apocalyptic literature is the unique genre […]
Mormons and Monuments in “The Green Mountain State”
Keith A. Erekson and Dr. Richard E. Bennett, Church History and Doctrine Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805, at the Mack farm in Sharon, Vermont.1 Though his family moved when he was young, the influence of his Vermont heritage was important in the development of the young Prophet and subsequently on the restoration of […]
An Annotated Edition of the Journals of Joseph W. Booth, Mormon Missionary to the Middle East (1889-1928)
David Charles and Dr. James A. Toronto, Church History and Doctrine With the assistance of a 1999 ORCA scholarship, I was able to make significant progress in understanding LDS Church history in the Middle East during the period 1880-1950. My work was divided between four separate but related projects, each of which will receive brief […]
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