Pride Cycle

• "The Pride Cycle", lds.org

• "The Cycle of Righteousness and Wickedness", lds.org, Book of Mormon Student Manual, 2009, p. 414

• Pride Cycle, BoardGameGeek, 2007

• Lisa Torcasso Downing, "The Mormon Historical Narrative and the 200 Year Pride Cycle", Life Outside The Book of Mormon Belt, 5 May 2014

The interesting idea is introduced that there may be a "pride cycle" operating within the organization of the church. It may be worth investigating whether the Church is analogous enough to a government to support its own "Secular Cycle" from Structural Demographic Theory, or some other similar cultural cycle. It seems plausible.

It is also worth noting that despite her supposed study of early Mormon polygamy, her comments manifest great ignorance of fundamental principles of marriage, or at least, a surprising failure to apply those principles. This problem, however, seems to be very common. People seem very interested in studying polygamy to learn about it, but seem to skip over a real study of how the Lord looks at marriage, and hence, miss the foundational principles that are needed to make sense of the history.

Cross-References

• Pride