Wednesday, June 9, 2004
Oman on Mormon Jurisprudence
Over at "Times and Seasons," Nate Oman has an interesting post, "Where is the Mormon Jurisprudence"? Here's a snip from the post:
"People regularly make the observation that Mormons are more concerned with orthopraxis than orthodoxy. In other words, Mormons are more concerned with right behavior than with right belief. The evidence in support of this claim seems fairly overwhelming in my mind. The fact of the matter is that we allow a huge diversity of beliefs on fairly fundamental questions (the nature of God and the nature of man for example), even though we frequently paper over the pluralism with equivicol and vague language. One the other hand, we worry a great deal about proper behavior: The Law of Chastity, the Word of Wisdom, participation in the Church, etc. In this context, I have frequently heard Mormonism compared to Judaism, which is taken as a paradigmatically orthopraxic faith. Which leads to me question:
Why haven't Mormons developed a jurisprudence?"
Rick
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2004/06/oman_on_mormon_.html