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30433
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English
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Mind and Spirit in Mormon Thought
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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227-245
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This chapter explores the distinctive meanings and values Mormons assign to “intellect,” “spirit,” “revelation,” and cognate terms. Mormon theology exalts intelligence. Mormon experience asserts the phenomenon of revelation, available through spiritual means. These premises contradict one another in the eyes of some, including the cultured despisers of religion as a whole. For these, the notion of a “Mormon intellectual” is futile: oxymoronic. Among Latter-day Saints, the twin premises have produced mottled perspectives on the relation between the life of the mind and the realm of the spirit: sometimes viewed as clashing, sometimes as coherent and synergetic, helping Mormons to receive faith, forge meaning, and confront the secularizing and anthropocentric acids of modernity.
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A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
A Thoughtful Faith : Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
Divine Revelations/Delusions Revealed : Historical Understandings of Revelation in Debates Over Mormonism
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Jesus Christ, Eternal God : Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormon's Codex : An Ancient American Book
Reminiscences and Testimony of Parley P. Pratt
Saints Without Halos : The Human Side of Mormon History
Still, the Small Voice Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley
The God Who Weeps : How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, Volume 1 : Joseph Smith Histories, 1832–1844
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Why I Stay : The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity