Carrie A. Miles

Carrie

Carrie's Articles and Papers:

Patriarchy or Gender Equality?  Paul's Letter to the Ephesians on Submission, Headship, and Slavery

 

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For Richer, for PoorerMaterialism's Corruption of Marriage and Family, Past and Present, and Moral Solutions to Its Problems

 

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God As Mother:

"...Unfortunately, Christianity as a whole has come to emphasize the image of God as father to the exclusion of other ways of relating to him. But it does not pay to take too literally any single, limited metaphor for our Limitless God..."

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Economic marriage/self interest continuum: 

Handout from 2007 presentations at the Evangelical Theological Society meetings and at the Berean Christian Conference.

 

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“Because women are property”:  Issues of Gender, Food Security, Property Ownership, Quasi-Development and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa

 

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Eternal Love:  The Song of Songs and Christian Marriage

"...To survive the trials of mortality we need Second Love: a deeper love to capture First Love, to domesticate it, and strengthen it for everyday life and for eternity. It was for this full and robust love that God created humankind..."

 

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Academic papers on Mormonism (socioeconomics of religion):

LDS Family Ideals versus the Equality of Women:
Getting a Testimony of Motherhood. (Draft)

A chapter from an edited volume in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas O'Dea's The Mormons

 

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Mormon Polygamy and the Economics of Salvation PDF version