Item Detail
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30290
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Journal Article
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English
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Terry, Roger
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Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2 : Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2018
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51
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2
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Journal
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2018
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1-40
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In the prequel to this article, I discussed in general contours the dual
nature of authority—individual and institutional—and how the modern LDS concept of priesthood differs significantly from the ancient version in that it has become an abstract form of authority that can be “held” (or withheld, as the case might be). In the ancient world, priesthood was used to describe either the condition of being a priest or the collective body of priests. And in the ancient world, the duties of “the priesthood” revolved around rituals, with the priests standing in the place of the Lord, being his agents, as it were. By contrast, in the modern Mormon version of priesthood, those who “hold” this authority, especially the Melchizedek Priesthood, generally have only occasional opportunity to officiate in religious rituals, which we call ordinances. Priesthood is now much more expansive, involving many functions that have little to do with the ancient duties of priests. In certain ways, it is also less clearly defined.
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