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30749
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30
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English
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Trajectories in the Evolution of Mormon Studies on Faith and Science
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Mormon Studies Review
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6
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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67-90
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"The relationship between science and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been and continues to be a complicated story. Concerns and differing perspectives about science provided the underlying context for a number of formal and informal institutional directions taken by the church in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. Often, these were influenced by differences in opinion about science among various leaders of the church. Areas in which science played a role include: the relationship between secular and church education, a battleground in framing doctrinal questions about creation—including syncretic influence from the rise of Christian fundamentalism and creationism; how science should be used or ignored in apologetic efforts; its role in framing health concerns and interpretations of the church’s health code found in the Word of Wisdom; and other boundary areas in which science and the church overlap. These concerns continue today as science weighs in on the biology of homosexuality and the nature of the claims of gender essentialism; the genetics and archeology of New World populations, which influence the interpretation of the Book of Mormon as a historical document; the continued influence of evolution as the uncontested scientific paradigm for understanding biology; and other things of concern to the institutional church and individual members." [Author]
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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
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Crawling Out of the Primordial Soup : A Step Toward the Emergence of an LDS Theology Compatible with Organic Evolution
Creationism and Intelligent Design : Scientific and Theological Difficulties
Evolution and Mormonism : A Quest for Understanding
Evolving Faith : Wanderings of a Mormon biologist
Faith and the Ethics of Climate Change
Home Waters : A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River
Joseph Smith as Scientist : A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
Letters to a Young Mormon
Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin
Mormon Doctrine
Mormonism and Evolution : The Authoritative LDS Statements
Mormonism and the New Creationism
Mormon Rhetoric and the Theory of Organic Evolution
Mormon Scientist : The Life and Faith of Henry Eyring
N. L. Nelson and The Mormon Point of View
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Scientific Aspects of Mormonism ; or, Religion in Terms of Life
Seers, Savants, and Evolution : The Uncomfortable Interface
The 1911 Evolution Controversy at Brigham Young University
The Faith of a Scientist
The Mormon Health Traditions : An Evolving View of Modern Medicine
The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution
The Next Mormons : How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
Toward a Greener Faith : A Review of Recent Mormon Environmental Scholarship
W. H. Chamberlin and the Quest for a Mormon Theology
Why Are Mormons So Susceptible to Medical and Nutritional Quackery?
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity