March 12, 2009 – 10:56 am
The late Krister Stendahl (1921-2008), who was a Swedish theologian, New Testament scholar, and a Professor and Dean of Divinity at Harvard University, once addressed the press about one of the Mormon temples that was being built nearby, and spoke about three important rules for religious understanding. These rules have since been recognized for their [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged big love, church, dialogue, discussion, endowment, interfaith, interview, investigators, learn, religion, sacred, scholar, talk, temples, video, videos, watch, youtube
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In a letter dated April 5th, and reported by the Catholic News Service on May 2nd, the Vatican issued an order to all Catholic dioceses throughout the world to not give genealogical information in parish registers to Latter-day Saints in an effort to “block posthumous rebaptisms” of LDS ancestors. The Vatican Congregation for the [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Temples Today
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Also tagged ancestors, baptism, baptism for the dead, catholic, catholic news service, church, converts, critics, early christian, priesthood, rebaptism, vatican, vicarious
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In 2002 the Church released a documentary on LDS temples that was originally broadcast between sessions of General Conference. It is entitled “Between Heaven and Earth” and is available on VHS or DVD at Deseret Book, Church Distribution, or the BYU Bookstore. It is being shown at temple open houses and in temple [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Favorites, General Authorities, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged ancients, antiquity, bible, clip, film, frank moore cross, movie, non-lds, scholar, video
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