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English
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Reading the Gospel of Philip as a Temple Text
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By our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint views on ritual in scripture, history, and practice
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Provo, UT; Salt Lake City, UT
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The Religious Studies Center, BYU; Deseret Book Company
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173-205
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For many Latter-day Saints, their introduction to studies on Latter-day Saint ritual was in reading the works of Hugh Nibley, who specifically focused on the rites of the temple. Nibley was the first to point out the parallels between the religious behavior of earlier cultures, especially the ritual experiences of early Christianity and our own. In this paper, Gaye continues this tradition as she introduces us to the Gnostic text, the Gospel of Philip, and points out intriguing similarities between this text and our own temple experience. [Daniel Belnap]