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![]() | Firmage, Edwin B. | Allegiance and stewardship: holy war, just war, and the Mormon tradition in the nuclear age | The present escalation in nuclear weapons technology between the United States and the Soviet Union has progressed beyond the point where any increase in such weaponry necessarily results in increased national security. It has become, in fact, the ultimate act of idolatry, a reliance upon technology... | Nuclear weapons; Salvation; Peacemakers | 1983 |
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![]() | Firmage, Edwin B. | Reflections on Mormon history: Zion and the anti-legal tradition | SIR HENRY MAINE, OUR FIRST GREAT MODERN legal historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved "from status to contract." "Status" assume... | Heaven; Christians; Revelations | 1998 |
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![]() | Firmage, Edwin B. | Seeing the stranger as enemy: coming out | In March 1996 the Utah state legislature banned gay / straight student support groups in all Utah public high schools. This act, along with the rhetoric of several legislators attacking gay and lesbian students, precipitated a rally of some 2,000 people at Salt Lake City's Wallace F. Bennett federal... | Utah; Legislature; Gay/straight alliance; Public high school; Protest marches | 1997 |