Fitting Comfortably: Mormonism and the Narrative of National Violence
It has been almost fifty years since the US bicentennial, when Spencer W. Kimball told the Saints and American society, "We are a warlike people."[2] Nothing remotely like this has been said since at the general level of the Church, and reference to President Kimball's prophetic persp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Dialogue
Year: 2022, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-174 |
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B MORMONISM B Violence |
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| Summary: | It has been almost fifty years since the US bicentennial, when Spencer W. Kimball told the Saints and American society, "We are a warlike people."[2] Nothing remotely like this has been said since at the general level of the Church, and reference to President Kimball's prophetic perspective in Church publications is virtually non-existent. The restoration does not call us to withdraw from political society but neither does it consider the nation holy.[5] Mason rightly directs his admonition first and foremost to "we Americans", and parenthetically to Saints from other countries. Bringing us up to the present, Mason concludes: "Since 1898 Latter-day Saints have fit comfortably into [Catholic theologian] William Cavanaugh's thought experiment: killing in the name of religion is abhorrent and unthinkable, while killing in the name of the state seems to be a perfectly reasonable and even sacred duty" (71). |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialogue
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5406/15549399.55.2.19 |