Item Detail
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7568
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10
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2
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English
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On Fidelity, Polygamy, and Celestial Marriage
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 1987
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20
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138-54
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"This is an essay in speculative theology. In it I explore an idea-- the general Mormon expectation of future polygamy-- that has important religious and moral implications but about which there is little definite scriptural direction and no clear official doctrine. I attempt here, in the spirit of a venerable tradition in Mormon thought from Joseph Smith's King Follett Discourse and Orson Pratt's The Seer to the sermons and writings of Hugh B. Brown and Lowell Bennion, to make a reconsideration, unauthoritative but serious. I suggest some new, possibly beneficial ways we might think and feel about celestial marriage-- both as it is and as it might be. My essay is not a critique of official Mormon practice or doctrine but an invitation to reexamine some unofficial ideas and expectations which persist among most Mormons because of a past practice-- a practice I believe was divinely inspired but also divinely, and permanently, rescinded." [Author]
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