The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190844434 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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An active participant in the field of Mormon Studies, he is also the Chief Technology Officer for a bio-renewables company.. About the AuthorJonathan Stapley is an award-winning historian and scientist
Jonathan Stapley is an award-winning historian and scientist. An active participant in the field of Mormon Studies, he is also the Chief Technology Officer for a bio-renewables company.
More important, he can demonstrate that the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. A church's liturgy is its ritualized system of worship, the services and patterns in which believers regularly participate. Liturgy informs and reinforces believers' behavior, he shows, and we find a complete religious world, incorporating women, men and children, all participating in the construction of the Mormon universe. While the term often refers to a specific formal ritual like the Roman Catholic Mass, events surrounding major life events--birth, coming of age, marriage, death--are often celebrated through church liturgies. Stapley uses previously untapped documentary and archival sources to elucidate new narratives in each chapter, tracing concepts from the beginning of the Latter-day Saint movement to the present. This volume casts analytically difficult and historically incongruous conc