by Administration | Nov 29, 2023 |
The idea of names as “keywords” has been associated with temples since very early times. In a temple context, the meaning of the term “keyword” can be taken quite literally: the use of the appropriate keyword or keywords by a qualified worshipper “unlocks” each one of...
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by Administration | Nov 15, 2023 |
The religious ceremony of prayer with uplifted hands, practiced in Christian denominations contemporary with the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has an extremely ancient and venerable history that goes back thousands of years and is...
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by Administration | Nov 1, 2023 |
When the Spaniards arrived on Peruvian shores in 1532, they were mistaken for Wiraqocha, a bearded white god who had sojourned among them in ancient times. This god had travelled through the Andes on a perfect 45 degree angle of the north-south axis of the planet....
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by Administration | Oct 18, 2023 |
A number of passages in the Hebrew Bible describe the temple and its iconography. Two of the features of the temple are the presence of cherubim and seraphim. These were well known to the writers of the Bible, but the images that spring to the modern western mind are...
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by Administration | Oct 4, 2023 |
Using a close reading of 3 Nephi 19, I will examine the interrelated and additive nature of each of the rituals in their temple context as described in 3 Nephi 19, culminating in Jesus’s high priestly intercessory prayer and discuss Mormon’s possible authorial intent...
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by Administration | Sep 20, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Sep 6, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Aug 23, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Aug 9, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Jul 26, 2023 |
Science and Mormonism have nearly always been on very friendly terms, with Church members sharing the deep conviction that, as expressed by former scientist and apostle Elder James E. Talmage, “within the gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth...
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by Administration | Nov 22, 2023 |
In this paper, I propose to revisit the question posed by Hugh Nibley, “What Is a Temple?” in Mormonism and Early Christianity (Salt Lake City and Provo, 1987), 355-90, and by John Lundquist, “What Is a Temple? A Preliminary Typology,” in Temples of the Ancient World,...
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by Administration | Nov 8, 2023 |
The “Messianic Secret” theory proposes that Jesus Christ forbids demons and followers from revealing who he is for an enigmatic reason. While the findings of the original theory have largely been abandoned, the idea of secrecy motifs in Mark has endured. Mark’s use of...
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by Administration | Oct 25, 2023 |
The book of Ruth easily lends itself to an allegorical interpretation, which corresponds in many ways to the endowment. Ruth, typifying any individual or Israel as a whole, undertakes and completes a journey to the Lord, typified by Boaz, the kinsman-redeemer. Ruth...
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by Administration | Oct 11, 2023 |
Fifteen months after the Church of Christ’s inception in April 1830, the young prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation indicating that Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, was to be the “center-place” of Zion and a “spot for a temple is lying westward, upon a...
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by Administration | Sep 27, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Sep 13, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Aug 30, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Aug 16, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Aug 2, 2023 |
Presented at:2016 Temple on Mount Zion ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 20164https://interpreterfoundation.org/conferences/2016-temple-on-mount-zion-conference/ Conference Proceedings:Sacred Time, Sacred Space, & Sacred Meaning at...
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by Administration | Jul 19, 2023 |
Science and Mormonism have nearly always been on very friendly terms, with Church members sharing the deep conviction that, as expressed by former scientist and apostle Elder James E. Talmage, “within the gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth...
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