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MORMONISM AND THE AMERICAN WAY: A RESPONSE

1966; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 1; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/45223789

1554-9631

Mario S. De Pillis,

American Constitutional Law and Politics

CLEBSCH : Each Sect the Sect to End All Sects /89Europe followed the principle cuius regio eius religio (whose region his religion) -not only Christians but Moors and Jews and pagans.No European religion transferred to these shores has maintained the principle.Instead the rule in America has been cuius ecclesia eius religio (whose congregation his religion) .Not Mormon Prophet nor Catholic Pope nor Anglican Priest nor Puritan Presbyter nor Methodist Preacher has for long broken the rule, and the potpourri of American religions endures.Its very multiplicity is the condition of its harmony.Things unique -doctrine, discipline, worship, order, polity, piety, etc. -abide the de facto forfeiture of universality by a device that is simple and pragmatic: by turning de jure claims to universality into specific characteristics of uniqueness.The Prophet's dictum holds for the Latter-day Saints: "Truth is Mormon-