God's wife, the mysterious mother of Mormons | Tresa Edmunds
The doctrine of the heavenly Mother offers hope for the position of women in the Mormon Church
a BBC2 program has been in the news for the presentation of the theory Stavrakopoulou Francesca learned that "God was a woman." Reactions of the religious world and academics have been varied, but the Mormons, which can be summarized as follows: ". Yes, I know "
The doctrine of the heavenly Mother was introduced by Joseph Smith in the early days of the church, and confirmed by the prophet after the prophet in subsequent years, but without elaborating much. Much of the debate on the heavenly Mother made reference to the logic of the relationship - if God is the Father of our spirits, like the Mormons believe, then there would need to be a mother. The best known of these arguments is one of the favorite Mormon hymn written by Eliza Snow. In "My Father," wrote:
"single parents in the sky? No, he did look right!
Truth is reason, truth eternal tells me I have a mother there. "
Heavenly Motheralso fits the unique and complicated Mormon cosmology, where the family is often referred to as the "building block of eternity." We have families here on Earth that can be made in the next life, in the same model as the God we worship.
For many women this reverence to the detriment of silence is painful. Mormon poet Carol Lynn Pearson compares the relationship of the church to the Mother of Heaven to the death of his mother. She said: "My mother died when I was 15, and I learned what it meant to live in a house without a mother in my desire for God, I found the same anguish .."
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