Item Detail
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27533
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English
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Instruments or Agents? : Balancing Submissiveness and Anxious Engagement in Heavenly Father's Plan
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Let Us Reason Together : Essays in Honor of the Life’s Work of Robert L. Millet
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Provo, UT
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BYU Religious Studies Center; Deseret Book; Maxwell Institute
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37-50
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"...despite its importance in the Father's plan for his children (or perhaps because of it), the truth about agency or freedom to choose is frequently misunderstood - in the world generally and even among believing Latter-day Saints. This paper explores one element of this misunderstanding: the interplay and seeming contradiction between the meekness, submissiveness, and trust required of disciples of Jesus Christ and the active, bold, assertiveness implied in the principle of agency. Could it be that God wants us to develop both?" [From the text]