Mormonism and Polygamy - Modern Plural Marriage Theory Within The LDS Church

Modern Plural Marriage Theory Within The LDS Church

Main article: Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement

Although the LDS Church has abandoned the practice of plural marriage, it has not abandoned the underlying doctrines of polygamy in an eternal sense. According to the church's sacred texts and pronouncements by its leaders and theologians, the church leaves open the possibility that it may one day re-institute the practice. It is the practice of Mormons to seal themselves to their wives. Inasmuch as a man, unlike a woman, may be sealed to multiple, sequential wives on earth, it is possible for a man to have multiple wives in the Celestial Kingdom.

Read more about this topic:  Mormonism And Polygamy

Famous quotes containing the words modern, marriage, theory and/or church:

    “Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism—victimless collecting, as it were ... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “I condemn Christianity. I raise against the Christian church the most terrible accusation that any accuser has ever uttered. It is to me the ultimate conceivable corruption. It has possessed the will to the final corruption that is even possible. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity: it has turned every value into a disvalue, every truth into a falsehood, every integrity into a vileness of the soul.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)