Item Detail
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29786
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English
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Toward a Mormon Theology of God the Mother
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 1994
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27
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2
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Cambridge, MA
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Dialogue Foundation
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15-39
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In this essay I attempt to reinterpret the Mormon concept of the Godhead. This interpretation is based on three convictions. I believe that God the Mother is equal to God the Father in divinity, power, and perfection. I believe that God, both Father and Mother, is deeply involved in our mortality and immortality. I also believe that God the Father has revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ. Although he is male, for me he is an adequate model. He modeled many roles for us—father, mother, teacher, friend, son, lover, servant, lord—and also many attributes. If he were the only God, he would be enough. But there is another god and she has a woman's body like mine. I want to know her, not simply as a model, but as a person. That she is God as well as woman is as important for men as it is for women as it affirms the equality of male and female and of masculine and feminine attributes and values. At the same time I must add that I am in no way whatsoever attempting an official reinterpretation of LDS doctrine; that prerogative rests solely with the leaders of the church. I am interested simply in offering a possibly new understanding and appreciation of the Mother based on my own reading and personal reflection.
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God the Mother and Other Theological Essays
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The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life : A Reassessment Fifty Years Later