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33157
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English
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The September Six and the Evolution of Mormon Magisteria
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2023
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56
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3
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Dialogue Foundation
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89-99
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In this article, Kristine Haglund considers the conflict between doctrinal authority and historical scholarship through the lens of Stephen Jay Gould's essay on the magisteria of science and religion. Gould asserted that science and religion each have spheres of authority that do not overlap and therefore cannot threaten each other. Haglund acknowledges that doctrine and history are not distinct spheres, but states, "The larger questions underlying Gould’s discussion of scholarly and religious method—organic evolution and divine creation—are implicated in the ways that the Church and its members arrive at doctrinal truth. Both the similarities and the differences between the Catholic example Gould considers and the way that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responds to similar difficulties are instructive."