RR #23_ The Modern Church
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Nathaniel Hart
Dr. Jeffrey G. Cannon
Religion C 225 - Foundations of the Restoration
Reading Reflection #23: The Modern Church
5 December 2023
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Bowman, "Correlation: 1945–1978"
1.
What is it? (talk/sermon, letter, historical narrative)
a.
Chapter 7 from the historical narrative,
The Mormon People
2.
Who created it? (speaker, author, editor, and/or translator)
a.
Matthew Bowman–Author. (
Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and
Associate Professor of History and Religion at Claremont Graduate University).
3.
Who is the audience?
a.
Members, nonmembers, and could be a good textbook for students.
4.
When was it created? (context)
a.
2012
5.
Why was it created?
a.
To inform the readers what interactions the church had with the world between
1945 and 1978
6.
How do the answers to these questions help us interpret the text?
a.
They assist in weighing between bias and credibility. The timing of the Mormon
moment brought much exigence to this book as well.
7.
What does it say?
a.
The 20th Century-Fox film
Brigham Youn
g was released in 1940 to display the Mormons as
America’s promise of religious freedom and tolerance.
b.
Hollywood’s embrace was a sign of inclusion in American culture, and the church gladly
accepted it.
c.
According to Time Magazine, David O Mckay was a new, fashionable, hardworking prophet
of the Church in 1951 to a world that has seen dour, dark-suited figures. He was upbeat and
characteristic of his time during the 1950s Christian West. He wrote
Secrets of a Happy Life
and
Life Worth Living.
He was the Church’s President until 1970, and the church’s
membership more than doubled during those two decades. Mckay also modernized the
missionary leadership and program throughout the world, with an emphasis on
professionalism where missionaries would go in pairs wearing standard American formal
dress. Mckay and leaders stressed that
all
young men at 19 should be obligated to serve.
Mission and language training began on the BYU campus in the 1960s once all these changes
were formalized.
d.
Primary President Parmley oversaw the assembly of two songbooks and commissioned an
edition of the bible for Children to learn scripture and sing music that focuses on teaching
them core doctrines.
e.
Mormon conservatism took place to increase conversion numbers, one strategy was a
family-centered approach.
f.
Ronald Reagan was voted in by 70% of utah, but President Kimbal and the church opposed
Reagan’s missile site construction in southern utah.
g.
During the increase of baptized African members, President Kimbal and leaders prayed and
wrestled to have black males ordained to the priesthood: the biggest shift in the church since
the end of polygamy, albeit late after the Civil Rights Movement passed. It was on June 9th,
1978.
h.
After this restriction was revoked in 1978, the goal of truly becoming a global church was
within reach
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