Anmerkungen

1.      Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, sel. Joseph Fielding Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976), 121.

2.      C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 11.

3.      Joseph Smith to John Wentworth, March 1842, in Joseph Smith Jr., History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. B.H. Roberts, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976), 4:536.

4.      See Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, 3 vols. (Harper & Row, 1931; reprint, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1985); and J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Creeds, 3^rd ed. (New York: David McKay Co., 1972).

5.      Teachings of the Prophet Joseph  Smith, 56.

6.      Ibid. 9-10.

7.      Improvement Era 39 (November 1936): 660; see Victor L. Ludlow, “Bible,” and Paul Hedengren, “Bible: LDS Beliefs in the Bible,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 5 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 1:104-8.

8.      The Gospel Kingdom: Selections from the Writings and Discourses of John Taylor, sel. G. Homer Durham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1987), 34.

9.      See Joseph Smith, comp., Lectures on Faith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 5:3; and Teachings of the Prophet Joseph  Smith, 346-48.

10.  President Snow often referred to this couplet as having been revealed to him by inspiration during the Nauvoo period of the church.  See, for example, Deseret Weekly, 8 October 1898, 513; Deseret News, 15 June, 1901, 177; and Journal History of the Church, Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, 20 July 1901, 4.

11.  Irenaeus, Against Heresies, bk. 5, preface.

12.  Ibid., 4.38 (4); compare 4.11 (2): “But man receives progression and increase towards God.  For as God is always the same, so also man, when found in God, shall always progress towards God.”

13.  Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks, 1.

14.  Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, 3.1. See his       Stromaeis 23.

15.  Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 124.

16.   Athanasius, Against the Aryans, 1.39, 3.34.

17.  Athanasius, On the Incarnation, 54.

18.  Augustine, On the Psalms, 50.2  Augustine insists that such individuals are gods by grace rather than by nature, but they are gods nevertheless.

19.  Richard P. BcBrien, Catholicism, 2vols. (Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1980), 1:146, 156, emphasis in original.

20.  Symeon Lash, “Deification,” in The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology, ed. Alan Richardson and John Bowden (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983), 147-48.

21.   C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, rev. ed. (New York: Macmillan, Collier books, 1980), 18.

22.  Lewis, Mere Christianity, 174-75.  For a more recent example of the doctrine of deification in modern, non-LDS Christianity, see M. Scott Peck, The Rad Less Traveled (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 269-70: “For no matter how much we may like to pussyfoot around it, all of us who postulate a loving God and really think about it eventually come to a single terrifying idea: God wants us to become Himself (or Herself or Itself).  We are growing toward godhood.”

23.  Smith, History of the Church, 6:305.

24.  The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams )(Sat Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984), 2.

25.  Smith, History of the Church, 6:306-7.

26.  Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1954-56), 1:12; see Bruce R. McConkie, The Promised Messiah (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978), 166.

27.  In Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: F.D. Richards & Sons, 1851-86), 11:249; see 7:333.

28.  In ibid., 4:271; see Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978), 64.

29.  Smith, History of the Church, 6:303; see Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 13:312.

30.  Lewis, Mere Christianity, 129.

31.  Bruce R. McConkie, Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1965-73), 2:499, 500.

32.  In Conference Report, October 1988, 78.

33.  Teachings of the Prophet Joseph  Smith, 30; see 297, 305.

34.  David O. McKay, Gospel Ideals (Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953), 6, emphasis in original; see Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 1:131; 8;124-25.

35.  Teachings of the Prophet of Joseph  Smith, 256-57.

36.  Times and Seasons 3 (15 March 1842): 732.

37.  See Melvin L. Wilkinson and William C. Tanner III, “The Influence of Family Size, Interaction, and Religiosity on Family Affection in a Mormon Sample,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 42/2 (1980): 297-304.

38.  See Brent C. Miller and Terrance D. Olson, “Sexual Attitudes and Behavior of High School Students in Relation to Background and Contextual Factors,” Journal of Sex Research 24 (1988): 194-200.

39.  See Ricky D. Hawks and Steven J. Bahr,” Religion and Drug Use,” Journal of Drug Education 22/1 (1992): 1-8.

40.  See Allen E Bergin et al., “Religion and Mental Health: Mormons and Other Groups,” in Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives. Ed. Marie Cornwall, Tim b. Heaton, and Lawrence A. Young (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 138-58.

41.  See Bruce A. Chadwick and Brent l. Top, “Religiosity and Delinquence among LDS Adolescents,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 32/1 (1993): 51-67.

42.  George Albert Smith, Sharing the Gospel with Others, comp. Preston Nibley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1948), 12, 13.

43.  Howard W. Hunter, That We Might Have Joy (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994), 59.

44.  Cited in ibid.