Item Detail
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3831
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20
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6
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English
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The Mormon Concept of a Mother in Heaven
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Sunstone
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September/October 1980
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5
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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9-15
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"What can be said about Mormon theology concerning a Heavenly Mother? At present the nineteenth-century generalized image of a female counterpart of a literal male Father God is receiving increased attention and expansion and is becoming more personalized and individualized. The widening 'theology' which is developing is more of a 'folk' or at least speculative theology rather than systematic development by theologians or definitive pronouncements coming from ecclesiastical leaders of the Church. For the moment, Mother in Heaven can be almost whatever an individual Mormon envisions her to be. Perhaps ironically, we thus set her up, despite herself, to fill the most basic maternal role of all-- that of meeting the deepest needs of her children, whatever they might be." [Author]
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