Editing Monism (section)

===== Mormonism =====
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[[Mormonism|Latter Day Saint]] theology also expresses a form of [[Dual aspect theory|dual-aspect]] monism via [[materialism]] and [[Eternity of the world|eternalism]], claiming that creation was ex materia (as opposed to ex nihilo in conventional Christianity), as expressed by [[Parley Pratt]] and echoed in view by the movement's founder [[Joseph Smith]], making no distinction between the spiritual and the material, these being not just similarly eternal, but ultimately two manifestations of the same reality or substance.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Wrestling the angel : the foundations of Mormon thought: cosmos, God, humanity |last=Terryl |first=Givens |isbn=978-0-19-979492-8 |location=Oxford |oclc=869757526 |year=2015}}</ref>

Parley Pratt implies a [[vitalism]] paired with evolutionary adaptation noting, "these eternal, self-existing elements possess in themselves certain inherent properties or attributes, in a greater or less degree; or, in other words, they possess intelligence, adapted to their several spheres."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Key to the Science of Theology. |last=Pratt |first=Parley |location=Liverpool |year=1855}}</ref>

Parley Pratt's view is also similar to Gottfried Leibniz's [[monadology]], which holds that "reality consists of mind atoms that are living centers of force."<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion. |last=McMurrin |first=Sterling |location=Salt Lake City |year=1965}}</ref>

[[Brigham Young]] anticipates a proto-mentality of elementary particles with his vitalist view, "there is life in all matter, throughout the vast extent of all the eternities; it is in the rock, the sand, the dust, in water, air, the gases, and in short, in every description and organization of matter; whether it be solid, liquid, or gaseous, particle operating with particle."<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young. |last=Van Wagoner |first=Richard S. |location=Salt Lake City |year=2009}}</ref>

The LDS conception of matter is "essentially dynamic rather than static, if indeed it is not a kind of living energy, and that it is subject at least to the rule of intelligence."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Process Theology: What It Is and Is Not. In Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies. |last=Griffin |first=David Ray |location=Macon, GA |year=2007}}</ref>

[[John A. Widstoe]] held a similar, more vitalist view, that "Life is nothing more than matter in motion; that, therefore, all matter possess a kind of life... Matter... [is] intelligence... hence everything in the universe is alive." However, Widstoe resisted outright affirming a belief in [[panpsychism]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Joseph Smith as Scientist. |last=Widstoe |first=John A. |location=Salt Lake City |year=1908}}</ref>