Item Detail
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25865
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4
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12
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English
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Believing Adoption
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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52
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2
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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45-65
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Adoption theology is concerned with salvation and entry into the family of God. Early Latter-day Saint (Mormon) adoption theology taught by Joseph Smith came to include priesthood, baptism for the dead, temple rites, and more. The author concludes that this doctrine informs important questions, including: Are spirits born? What is the nature of salvation? What is the shape of the heaven family (the interlocking network of familial connections that will exist in the afterlife)? Adoption theology offers an alternative to the popular doctrine of spirit birth, one that is consistent with what Joseph Smith taught about the nature of God and our relationship to him. Adoption also offers a "road between" the complex Calvinist and Arminian views of the will and salvation. Finally, adoption theology highlights how Smith was attempting to teach his followers to practice a commitment and love that extended beyond the bounds of the nuclear family.
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Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging
The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Law : Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview
William Phelps's Paracletes, An Early Witness to Smith's Divine Anthropology