Graduate student Benjamin E. Park, recently blogged that “Mormons have yet to formulate a way to understand their doctrinal canon that acknowledges the messiness of the past.
He further writes: “While modern-day prophets and an open canon promise sacred continuity and a collapse of distance between the Bible and modernity, it also theoretically implies instability through the potential for change. How can one know if present practices are God’s will when the future could bring something drastically different, and how does one contextualize different beliefs of the past when they were voiced by prophetic leaders?”
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