Monthly Archives: January 2012

Mormonism has recently (over the last few years) been described as “atheological,” for a number of reasons (focus on praxis, no official theology–creedal or otherwise–no widely recognized or official theologians, continuing revelation, etc). I think this is mostly right, though the designation is also unfortunate because this seems to imply that there is no such thing as Mormon theolog(ies), which is manifestly not the case. (It’s more accurate to say that systematic theology is something contemporary Mormonism generally resists, though there are famous and influential Mormon systematic theologies). Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the way Mormons conceive of and “do” theology does seem to be different in many ways from the ways Christian theology has been conceived/done. Atheology (or some variant) might, for the moment, be the most useful descriptive term.  Continue reading →