This book explores Mormon theology in new ways from a scholarly
non-Mormon perspective. Bringing Jesus and Satan into relationship
with Joseph Smith the founding prophet, Douglas Davies shows how the
Mormon 'Plan of Salvation' can be equated with mainstream
Christianity's doctrine of the Trinity as a driving force of the
faith. Exploring how Jesus has been understood by Mormons, his many
Mormon identities are described in this book: he is the Jehovah of the
Bible, our Elder Brother and Father, probably also a husband, he
visited the dead and is also the antagonist of Satan-Lucifer. This
book offers a way into the Mormon 'problem of evil' understood as
apostasy, from pre-mortal times to today. Three images reveal the
wider problem of evil in Mormonism: Jesus' pre-mortal encounter with
Lucifer in a heavenly council deciding on the Plan of Salvation, Jesus
Christ's great suffering-engagement with evil in Gethsemane, and
Joseph Smith's First Vision of the divine when he was almost destroyed
by an evil force. Douglas Davies, well-known for his previous accounts
of Mormon life and thought, shows how renewed Mormon interest in
theological questions of belief can be understood against the
background of Mormon church-organization and its growing presence on
the world-stage of Christianity.
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Atonement, Evil and the Mormon Vision
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781351924825
Publisert
2021
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Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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