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33142
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English
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Theology of the Family
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Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
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London
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Routledge
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495-508
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“Perhaps no theme is as central to the self-understanding and public perception of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the family. Indelibly marked in the public eye by its early practice of polygamy, the church underwent in the twentieth century a remarkable turn in its relation to established North American family culture, welcoming its new image as an emblem of traditional ‘family values.’ In the twenty-first century, the church has again moved away from contemporary family culture in its resistance to the legal and cultural changes that have redefined the institution of marriage away from heterosexually gendered spousal roles. At every point, family models and domestic practices have marked the shifting distance between the church and its North American social context. The theology of family that informs Mormon family practices is no less contested a site. Mormon teachings on the family have been the arena in which dynamic tensions play out between different currents in Mormon thought. No single or systematic Mormon theology of family prevails. Rather, Mormon teachings on family might be better understood as a theological byproduct of the tradition’s metaphysical propositions, and the staging ground for its competing soteriological visions. In particular, Mormonism’s theological commitments to materialism, universalism, and sacramentalism radically transform its soteriology, and in the process the family becomes the very vehicle of Christian salvation.” [Author]
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