{"id":17056,"date":"2015-01-19T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17056"},"modified":"2015-01-19T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:14:10","slug":"the-influence-of-law-on-mormon-theology-in-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/the-influence-of-law-on-mormon-theology-in-the-20th-century.html","title":{"rendered":"The influence of law on Mormon theology in the 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17057\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/College_of_William_and_Mary_Wren1_Williamsburg.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17057\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/College_of_William_and_Mary_Wren1_Williamsburg-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"William and Mary, Wren 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the campus of the College of William &amp; Mary (founded in 1693), in Williamsburg, Virginia<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mormonscholarstestify.org\/656\/nathan-b-oman\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nathan Oman<\/a>, of the Law School of the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia \u2014 a friend and brilliant former student \u2014 calls my attention to an article that he\u2019s just published under the title of \u201cInternational Legal Experience and the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/mormonism' target='_blank'>Mormon Theology<\/a> of the State, 1945-2012.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For details, see here: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/the-influence-of-law-on-mormon-theology-in-the-20th-century\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/the-influence-of-law-on-mormon-theology-in-the-20th-century\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of you, I think, might find it of considerable interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Nathan Oman, of the Law School of the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia \u2014 a friend and brilliant former student \u2014 calls my attention to an article that he\u2019s just published under the title of \u201cInternational Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology of the State, 1945-2012.\u201d \u00a0 For details, see here: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The influence of law on Mormon theology in the 20th century<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; Nathan Oman, of the Law School of the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia -- a friend and brilliant former student -- calls my\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/the-influence-of-law-on-mormon-theology-in-the-20th-century.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The influence of law on Mormon theology in the 20th century\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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