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Show 168 theological precedents for correlation in general, M. specifically describes the religious integrative underpinnings that characterize the Hormon concept of education: given by cation "The rel igious sanction the Mormons to education has tended to studies and to some 'a series of linking physiology to his relatively unrelated specialties. the to III to make edu And then after synthesize spirit and spiritual welfare, Bennion continues: tendency and the secular in education have the secular matter study of economics, mathematics, physics, leaders looked upon the Mormons integrate degree prevented the general tendency noting the Latter-day Saintsl ability and after Lynn Bennion as to In "The 1onnon differentiate between the religious most unfortunate. "69 frequently been portrayed having separatist notions. and some as a peculiar people respects this characterization holds; but within the Mormon community itself, cooperation has become characteristic. cal), the To survive in hostile environments and to establish advantages a Kingdom of God of social, economic, imentation with, and actual and practice on (social earth, Mormons and soon physilearned political cooperation. of communal enterprises Exper like the United Order, the village system of agriculture, irrigation, and cooperatives70 helped to create a tradition of cooperative effort. affected mortal life and an eternal existence greatly in fluenced by earth life perhaps further contributes to the Mormon tendency to blur time distinctions. importantly 69M. Lynn Bennion, Mormonism and Education (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Latter-day Department of Education of Sai nts, 1939), p. the Church of Jesus Christ of 125. see Leonard Arrington, Great Basin Harvard University Press, 1958) and Lowry Nelson, A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement (Salt The Mormon Vi11aQe: Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1952). 70For relevant discussion, Kingdom (Cambridge: |
