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Review Of Taming The Leviathan: The Reception Of The Political And Religious Ideas Of Thomas Hobbes In England 1640-1700 By Jon Parkin, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Review Of Taming The Leviathan: The Reception Of The Political And Religious Ideas Of Thomas Hobbes In England 1640-1700 By Jon Parkin, Geoffrey M. Vaughan
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The Foundations And Early Development Of Mormon Mission Theory, David Golding
The Foundations And Early Development Of Mormon Mission Theory, David Golding
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This study seeks to answer a fundamental question facing missiologists and historians of Mormonism: given their sustained preoccupation with converting others to Mormonism and their thriving tradition of missionary work, how do Mormons conceive of their mission? By focusing on the theoretical frame in which Mormon missionaries imagined the non-Mormon world, prepared for missionary engagement, and derived their expectations for their mission work, this study aims to illuminate the development of Mormon missionary activities and explain the processes by which Mormons fashioned for themselves a missional character. Beginning with Joseph Smith and the emergence of his missional thought and ending …