Item Detail
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32690
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English
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In Defense of Heavenly Mother: Her Critical Importance for Mormon Culture and Theology
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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2022
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55
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1
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Orem, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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37-68
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"In this essay, I will interrogate the views and arguments surrounding Heavenly Mother advocated in Mormon discourse on both the right and the left... I will focus on the place where mainstream and liberal discourses converge, namely on Heavely Mother's role as the wife of the Father God and the mother of his children. I will challenge both current Church teachings as well as Petrey's simplified summary of my past work. I have explored multiple nuanced images and figures that represent the female divine, such as a trinity of Mother, Daughter, and Holy Spirit who parallel the male godhead in form and function and who 'have been intimately involved in our creation, redemption, and spiritual well-being' from the beginning. In this essay, I will highlight Mary, Wisdom, and the Holy Ghost or Comforter as central manifestations of God the Mother who reveal her divine wisdom, justice, mercy, and love, not merely her subordinate role in the patriarchal family unit. Multiple presentations of the Mother God rooted in Mormon texts challenge the view that she merely reinforces one kind of essentialized woman or mother. On the contrary, her many roles present a polymorphous divinity who makes room for gender nonconforming people." [Author]
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