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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Latter-Day Saint Theology of a Material, Embodied Deity vis-à-vis Evolutionary Conceptions of Embodiment, Agency, and Matter
Contributor:
Peck, Steven L.
imprint:
Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022
Published in:Journal for the Study of Religion
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n1a1
ISSN:
1011-7601;
2413-3027
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Do Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have anything to contribute to theological conversations about the nature of God? The article explores this question through the lens of Latter-day Saint conceptions of matter and agential embodiment that may be useful in generalizing material theologies and provide a resource for other material-based views of deity. The argument will examine the question by first exploring the nature of agency articulated from three perspectives: 1) Process thinking in the life sciences; 2) materialist feminism; and 3) evolutionary biology. The article then suggests that the materialism of Mormonism, while in the first stages of theological engagement, is likely to provide possible dialogues with other religious traditions, looking at mattered and embodied conceptions of deity, including trinitarian ones.</jats:p>