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English
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The Prophecy of Enoch as Restoration Blueprint
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The Arrington Lecture Series
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Logan, UT
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Published by Special Collections and Archives, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Publication Management and Distribution by Utah State University Press
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My task today is to argue for the centrality of this vision to all that Joseph would hereafter accomplish. Smith was excited enough by this prophecy that he rushed it into publication almost as soon as the church had a newspaper to serve as a vehicle. He skipped right over the other 6 chapters of Genesis he had revised, and published Enoch's prophecy without introduction or explanation. In these passages, we find an impact far out of proportion to its modest textual length. The Enoch text sowed the seeds of Mormonism's most distinctive and vibrant doctrines: It produced the most emphatic version of a passible deity the Christian world then knew (a God of passions and emotions); it catalyzed Latter-day Saint understanding of and enthusiasm for the doctrine of pre-mortal existence; it foreshadowed, and might more vitally inform, the church's distinctive doctrine of theosis or divinization; and perhaps most importantly, it provided Joseph with the distinctive contours of his own prophetic vocation as a builder of Zion. If the Book of Mormon lent Joseph his indispensable aura of prophetic authority, the prophecy of Enoch provided a personal role model to inspire him, and a blueprint to direct him. [from the text]
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