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•The Things Refuseniks AcceptTovah Ben David
•War and the StateWilliam Vanwagenen
• Stewardship of the Creation: According to The Book
capitalist economies constitute the reality in which Mor- mons must live, making some degree o cooperation with government necessary or the Mormon Church to simply exist and evangelize. In the decades ollowing the ound- ing o the Mormon religion in 1830, the ederal and state
ous times, in the orm o imprisonments, expulsions, land conscations, and so orth. The most notorious example o this came in 1838 when the then Governor o Missouri,
by ederal authorities due to the Mormon practice o po- lygamy. As a result o such persecution, it was necessary or Mormons to come to some kind o an accommodation
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o history,” but rather look orward to the establishment o a society and economic system in accordance with the principles contained in their own sacred writings.
the authority o the State. John Howard Yoder denes the State as “the phenomenon that society is organized by the appeal to orce as ultimate authority.”2 As the sociologist Max Weber explained,
as ‘anarchy,’ in the specic sense o this word. O course, orce is certainly not the normal or the only means o the state – nobody says that – but orce is a means specic to
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