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Attaining the Resurrection in Mortality

October 19, 2009 – 4:46 pm

The use of those two words together, resurrection in mortality, appears to be perfectly incongruous at first glance.  In our common parlance in the Church we understand resurrection to be something that can only happen after mortality.  The resurrection “consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never [...]

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John Tvedtnes on The Sacred in the Temple

February 14, 2008 – 1:56 pm

John A. Tvedtnes, senior resident scholar with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, recently authored an article for Meridian Magazine entitled, “Secretive Mormonism.” He had some great comments about the esoteric versus exoteric nature of the LDS temple practices (emphasis is my own): Commentators frequently refer to Mormon temple [...]

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