Item Detail
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28941
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1
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12
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English
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Do We Have to Believe That? Canon and Extra-canonical Sources of LDS Belief
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2017
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50
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1
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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57-77
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This essay will attempt to clarify the process by which extra-canonical texts gain the status of "scripture" in contemporary Mormonism. First, I examine the meaning of "formative" and "normative" scripture. Second, I examine in detail the use of scripture in general conference addresses. Third, I examine institutional efforts to teach scripture to LDS youth, with particular emphasis on the scripture mastery program. Finally, I examine the status of "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," which generated the dominant doctrinal theme of the last two decades, as well as the more recent gay exclusion policy. Ultimately, the nature of what constitutes scripture for Latter-day Saints resists facile explication, but I hope this discussion will bring into sharper focus the chaos out of which "Mormon scripture" emerges. [From the text]
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