{"id":2862,"date":"2011-06-30T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T18:41:35","slug":"classifying-mormon-theism-a-paper-by-carl-mosser-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/classifying-mormon-theism-a-paper-by-carl-mosser-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Classifying Mormon Theism – a paper by Carl Mosser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Carl Mosser<\/a> teaches theology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

I recently read, and profited much from his “Classifying Mormon Theism.<\/a>“<\/strong> Check it out.<\/p>\n

It’s part of a book<\/a> dedicated to the work of the unique Mormon philosopher of religion David Paulsen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mosser’s paper is of interest for several reasons:<\/p>\n

First, is Mormonism a sort of polytheism, monotheism, or what? You’ll have to read the paper to get Mosser’s answer. But here’s a teaser: “It is inappropriate to classify Mormonism as a polytheistic religion<\/strong>. To do so conveys highly misleading connotations.” (p. 23, emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Second, what is monotheism anyway? What is a god?<\/p>\n

Third, how did the ancients, including the authors of the Bible use “God” and related terms? For example, how was the Greek theos <\/em>used? And how does this compare to our usage?<\/p>\n

I don’t think I agree with all of Mosser’s conclusions; but there is a lot<\/em> going on here, and there is much that is useful.<\/p>\n

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Carl Mosser teaches theology at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. I recently read, and profited much from his “Classifying Mormon Theism.“ Check it out. It’s part of a book dedicated to the work of the unique Mormon philosopher of religion David Paulsen. Mosser’s paper is of interest for several reasons: First, is Mormonism a sort of… Read More »Classifying Mormon Theism – a paper by Carl Mosser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,38,47,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-books","category-monotheism","category-papers","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}