Oh Lord God, deliver us in thy due time from the little narrow prison almost as it were total darkness of paper pen and ink and a crooked broken scattered and imperfect language. ~ Joseph Smith to William W. Phelps, Nov. 27, 1832
We have to cease to think if we refuse to do it in the prison-house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit . . . ~ Nietzsche
Like most religions, Mormonism as a religion has a formal hierarchy. It has official statements and declarations. It is, on the surface, decidedly not a post-modern religion, and most of its adherents are not postmodernists. Mormons like to see their faith as being grounded in absolutes. They like to say, "I know." Yet, once we move beyond the religion to its theology, we find something very different.
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