Item Detail
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32345
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English
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Cannot Describe Salt : Elizabeth Willis, Poets in Exile, and the Church Invisible in the Age of Pandemic
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Fall 2021
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54
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3
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Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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"Obscurity by definition hides that which cannot be found anywhere else. Once upon a time, such might have been called the Church Invisible : St. Augustine’s fourth-century concept (ironically rooted in Neoplatonism) that the true church is hidden from us—that the physical trappings of the earthly church only reveal it partially and imperfectly, 'through a glass darkly.' The idea of the Church Invisible was centuries later embraced by the Protestants (especially the Calvin-ists) to illustrate how the elect and saved are known only to God. The Roman Catholics would later seek to reclaim the term in the twentieth century. Yet, one place where the term has curiously not yet gained wide currency is in Mormonism." [Author]