Item Detail
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28346
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English
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House of the Temple, House of the Lord : A View From Philadelphia
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 1987
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20
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3
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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97-107
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"The House of the Lord is the matrix for the kingdom of God on earth. The temple transmutes city and wilderness: it pursues neither Eden, nor the heavenly Jerusalem. It sanctions neither a naive return to a romanticized past, nor the negation of the sensuous present, the real, for an abstract future. Rather, by a mysterious alchemy conjured through the conjunction of words from an improbable rite, it would bridge the rift between parents and children, the whole estranged family of Adam and Eve, and it would establish Enoch's city here, in this world, through unnumbered acts of charity and justice." [From the text]