Clearly, testimony plays a central role in Mormonism. Does it play an epistemic role? And if so, what is it? Is this role justified? This paper will argue that the primary role for testimony in Mormonism is deference to the testimonies of the Church leadership. I will argue that this role for testimony in religious …
Person: Dennis Potter
SLC 2013 Symposium/ Session 114: Providing Contraries: an Examination of Mormon “Paradoxism”
Dennis Potter presents his paper, “Providing Contraries: an Examination of Mormon “Paradoxism” on August 1st, 2013. [powerpress]
SL07123: ‘THOSE ARE MY FONDEST MEMORIES’: AN AMPLIFIED THEOLOGY OF ATONEMENT IN NEW YORK DOLL
‘THOSE ARE MY FONDEST MEMORIES’: AN AMPLIFIED THEOLOGY OF ATONEMENT IN NEW YORK DOLL There is a more complicated relationship between Arthur Kane’s Mormonism and his life as a fallen musician than the typical LDS viewer of the film New York Doll might perceive. One might watch this film and see Kane as being redeemed …
MORMON STUDIES AS CULTURAL STUDIES: THE AMERICANIZATION OF MORMONISM REFLECTED IN POP CULTURE
MORMON STUDIES AS CULTURAL STUDIES: THE AMERICANIZATION OF MORMONISM REFLECTED IN POP CULTURE Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary approach to studying human life that employs political theory and strategy, as well as philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, and other fields. Its approach is unabashedly political in nature. Its purpose is to show how cultural …
The Americanization Of Mormonism Reflected In Pop Culture
The Americanization Of Mormonism Reflected In Pop Culture Once marginalized but now centralized in American culture, Mormonism is a very interesting case study for cultural studies-type critiques which employ political theory and strategy, as well as philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, and other fields. We can learn much about Mormonism’s relationship to networks of …
Mormonism In Comparative Contexts: Winning Essays From The 2006 Capener Contest
Mormonism In Comparative Contexts: Winning Essays From The 2006 Capener Contest This session features the two winning essays in the inaugural R. L. “Buzz” Capener Memorial Writing Contest in Comparative Religious Studies. John Dewey Remy’s study, “The Relative Importance of Space and Time in Japanese and Mormon Rites for the Ancestral Dead,” examines similarities and …
Post-Mortem Materialism: A Mormon Approach To Embodiment
Traditionally, materialism reduces embodiment to static physical characteristics. Such an ontology is “dead” insofar as no reference to the life of a body is required to comprehend it. By contrast, I argue that we need to embrace a living materialism. To be embodied is to have a life. On this view, the claim that the …
When Talking About God With Those Of Other Religions, Do We Mean The Same Thing?
When traditional Christians and Mormons talk about God, are they talking about the same being and disagreeing with each other, or are they merely talking past one another? This panel will explore the philosophical issue of how we can refer to God and what implications this has for interreligious discourse between Mormons and those of …
A THEOLOGY OF COLLECTIVE SIN AND GRACE
The traditional theologies of sin and grace, Pelagianism, Arminianism, and Calvinism, all make one assumption about the nature of sin that I believe is incorrect. They assume that sin is primarily an action carried out by an individual and for which that individual is alone responsible. I argue that individual sin is the exception and …
A Prolegomenon to Liberation Theology in the Book of Mormon
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …