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1 Robert Nisbet, History of the Idea of Progress (New York: Basic Books, 1980; reprint, Piscataway, N. J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993), 4-5.
2 Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return (Princeton University Press, 1971), 115.
3 The Dialogues of Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett, vol. 7, Great Books of the Western World (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952), 451.
4 Eliade, 102-130, 141-147.
5 The City of God, trans. Marcus Dods, vol. 18, Great Books of the Western World (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952): 350.
6 Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997), 199-204.
7 John F. Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (New York: Paulist Press, 1995), 22-25.
8 Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: Macmillan, 1939), 17-19, 27.
9 Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967), 8: 542; 7: 612.
10 Nisbet, 128.
11 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Toward the Future, trans. Rene Hague (London: Collins, 1975), 96.
12 Friedrich Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin, 1978), 3-4.
13 Walter Kaufmann, Nietzche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1950), 321.
14 Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 1-16.
15 Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 13.
16 Nisbet, 4-5.
17 Joseph Smith, Lectures on Faith (LDS Church, 1835).
Leland H. Gentry, "What of the Lectures on Faith?" BYU Studies 19 (Fall 1978): 5-19.
18 D&C 93:33;
D&C 93:29;
Pearl of Great Price, Abr. 3:18.
19 History of the Church, 4: 46 (Dec. 15, 1842).
20 D&C 130:18-19.
21 Stan Larson, ’The King Follett Discourse: A Newly Amalgamated Text/’ Brigham Young University Studies, 18 (Winter 1978), 198-208.
22 Journal of Discourses, 2:91 (Feb. 6, 1853).
23 Ibid., 5:54 (Jul. 19, 1857).
24 Ibid., 6:344 (Jul. 31, 1859).
25 D. Michael Quinn, Extensions of Power, vol. 2, The Mormon Hierarchy (Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates, 1997), 752.
26 Herald R. Clark, ed., Messages of the First Presidency, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954), 2:214-223.
27 Journal of Discourses, 8:162 (Sep. 2, 1860);
28 Quinn, Extensions of Power, 799-800.
29 Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, 120 (Dec. 6, 1857).
30 Eugene England, "Perfection and Progression: Two Complementary Ways to Talk about God," BYU Studies 29, no. 3 (Summer 1989), 31-45;
Boyd Kirkland, "The Development of the Mormon Doctrine of God," Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine, ed. Gary J. Bergera (Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1989), 35-62;
Sterling M. McMurrin, The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1965), 1-13;
Kent E. Robson, "Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience in Mormon Theology," in Gary J. Bergera, ed., Line Upon Line: Essays on Mormon Doctrine, 67-75.
31 James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith (Salt Lake City: LDS Church, first edition, 1901), 421;
Thomas G. Alexander, "The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine: From Joseph Smith to Progressive Theology," Sunstone 5, no. 4 (July 1980): 24-33.
32 John A. Widtsoe, A Rational Theology as Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (Salt Lake City: General Priesthood Committee, 1915), 20-22;
Alexander, 29.
33 John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1943), 179.
34 Widtsoe, A Rational Theology, 20-22;
Alexander, 29.
35 Brigham H. Roberts, The Truth, the Way, the Life: An Elementary Treatise on Theology, ed. Stan Larson (1931, reprint, Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates, 1994), 16;
B.H. Roberts, The Truth, the Way, the Life: An Elemenary Treatise on Theology, ed. John W. Welch (1931 reprint, Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 1994), 318.
36 Conference Report, (Salt Lake City: LDS Church, Oct. 1903): 73.
37 Brigham H. Roberts, The Mormon Doctrine of Deity (1903, reprint, Horizon Publishers, Bountiful, Utah, 1982), 95-114.
38 Roberts, The Truth, the Way, the Life, 364.
39 Hugh B. Brown, ’A Final Testimony," quoted in An Abundant Life: The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown, ed. Edward L. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988), 139.
40 David O. McKay, A Message for LDS College Youth (Provo, Utah: BYU Extension Publications, Oct. 8, 1952), 6-7.
Conference Report (Apr. 1968): 92. The passage cited in the text was quoted from Raymond West (no source given).
41 Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 544-545.
42 Bruce R. McConkie, "The Seven Deadly Heresies," talk given at BYU on June 1, 1980, transcript in author’s possession.
43 Conference Report, Oct. 1963, 89; Apr. 1968, 91; Apr. 1953, 14.
44 Ibid., Apr. 1966, 106.
45 Ibid., Oct. 1946, 112.
46 Ibid., Apr. 1964, 75.
47 Ibid., Apr. 1969, 62-64.
48 Ibid., Apr. 1957, 54.
49 Ibid., Apr. 1968,50-51.
50 Ibid., Oct. 1970, 129.
51 Ibid., Apr. 1999.
52 O. Kendall White, Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy: A Crisis Theology, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987).
53 Craig L. Blomberg, Stephen E. Robinson, How Wide the Divide: A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation, (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997), 59, 72.
54 Ibid, 20, 55.
55 "The Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics," International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, 1982, copy in author’s possession.
56 Blomberg and Robinson, 77.
57 Ibid., 78.
58 Joseph Fielding McConkie, Answers: Straightforward Answers to Tough Gospel Questions (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 156.
59 Ibid., 158-160.
60 Ibid., 165.
61 Ibid., 166-167.
62 Ibid., 170.
63 Ibid., 223.
64 Michael J. Sniffen, "Report: Serious Crime Falls in 1999," Washington Post, 22 Nov. 1999.
65 Ian Burrell, "Crime Rates Fall Fast, but Fear Still Grows," Reuters News Agency, 14 Oct. 1998.
66 Randolph E. Schmid, "Teen Births Drop to Record Low," Associated Press, 17 Apr. 2001.
67 Tamala M. Edwards, "The Opposite of Sex," Time, 13 July 1998, 39.
68 Christopher S. Wren, "More Teenagers Disapprove of Drug Use, Survey Finds/’ New York Times, 22 Nov. 1999.
69 Jeffrey Kluger, "How to Manage Teen Drinking," Time, 18 June 2001, 42.
70 Nicholas Wade, "Scientists View New Wave of Cancer Drugs," New York Times, 29 May 2001.
71 Christine Gorman, ’An Attack on Aging," Time, 26 Jan. 1998, 35-36.
72 D&C 1:1-3.
73 Andrew M. Greeley, Religious Change in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996), 14.
74 "Poll: 40% of Scientists Believe in God: It Indicates Faith Coexists with Quest for Natural Law," New York Times, 3 Apr. 1997, 7 A.
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