Jacob 7 focuses on a dramatic showdown between Sherem, a defender of the Mosaic tradition, and Jacob, a prophet who views the Mosaic law as dead in light of what he calls the doctrine of Christ. The papers collected in this volume offer theological readings of this Book of Mormon chapter that draw on Jacob 7 s structure and literary details to illuminate key themes like law, family, prayer, mourning, and messianic time.

Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7

Religion & Spirituality

Joseph M. Spencer

Adam S. Miller

Christian Books & Bibles

Neal a Maxwell Inst

The papers collected in this book are the product of a Mormon Theology Seminar dedicated to generating close, theologically informed readings of the second and third chapters of Genesis. Though participants in the seminar employed a wide variety of methodological approaches, the results clearly show a common core of understanding won through months of close collaborative effort. Essays explore the nature of appetite, the role of community, the necessity of ecology, and the persistence of paradox in one of the Bible s most human stories.

Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

This book is based on a novel idea: that Mormons do theology. Doing theology is different from weighing history, deciding doctrine, or inspiring devotion. Theology speculates. It experiments with questions and advances hypotheses. It tests new angles and pulls loose threads. It reads old texts in careful and creative ways. Theology, in this sense, is not an institutional practice. It has no force beyond the charity it demonstrates and it decides no questions beyond what the Brethren have settled. It is the work of individuals who, for its own sake, want to see what ideas about Mormonism may, at least for a time, fly. The Mormon Theology Seminar aims to promote such work. The Seminar is both unofficial and independent. It is scholarly in orientation and cooperative in practice. It focuses on organizing short-term, seminar-style collaborations that, over the span of a few months of intense discussion, consider specific questions about Mormon theology through close readings of basic Mormon texts. This book makes public the papers that resulted from one such seminar. The result? A collective consideration on the relationship between faith and the word in Alma 32.

An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32

History

Salt Press LLC

This book is composed as a series of Letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in his or her faith. The author, philosophy professor Adam S. Miller, imagined himself writing these letters to his own children. In doing so, he struggled to say his own piece about what it means to be -- as a Mormon -- free, ambitious, repentant, faithful, informed, prayerful, selfless, hungry, chaste, and sealed.
The letters do little to benchmark a Mormon orthodoxy. That work belongs to those called to it. Here, Miller's work is personal. He means only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life and hopes to show something of what it means to live in a way that refuses to abandon either life or Mormonism.
This second edition of Letters to a Young Mormon, includes all the content of the original, well-loved book, with added chapters on the Sabbath and stewardship, as well as a new preface by the author, which provides additional framing and context for his writing.

Letters to a Young Mormon, Second Edition

Deseret Book Company and Neal A. Maxwell Institute

Along with Nephi, "we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ" (2 Nephi 25:26), but in all our talking and learning, have we learned how to live in Christ? What does a life in Christ look like or feel like?
In this thought-provoking exploration of the writings of the Apostle Paul and Book of Mormon prophets, Adam Miller examines what life in Christ looks like. We often hope for an abundant life with Christ in the next life, but how can we let ourselves and our own desires die so we can be born again to a new life, a full life in Christ, here and now in this mortal life?
Embark with the author on this journey at once scriptural, philosophical, and literary and discover one way to share a life with Christ as if he were present today.

An Early Resurrection: life in Christ Before You Die

BYU/Neal A. Maxwell Inst./Deseret Book Company

This book on CD is composed as a series of letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in his or her faith. The author, philosophy professor Adam S. Miller, imagined himself writing these letters to his own children. In dong so, he struggled to say his own piece about what it means to be -- as a Mormon -- free, ambitious, repentant, faithful, informed, prayerful, selfless, hungry, chaste, and sealed.
The letters do little to benchmark a Mormon orthodoxy. That work belongs to those called to it. Here, Miller's work is personal. He means only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life and hopes to show something of what it means to live in a way that refuses to abandon either life or Mormonism.
This second edition of Letters to a Young Mormonincludes all the content of the original, well-loved book, with added chapters on the Sabbath and stewardship, as well as a new preface by the author, which provides additional framing and context for his writing.

Deseret Book Company and Neal A. Maxwell Inst.

In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead of implicitly affirming the traditional logic of original sin, we, as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emphasized the deeper reality of God's original grace? What if we broke entirely with the belief that suffering can sometimes be deserved and claimed that suffering can never be deserved? 
In exploring these questions, Miller draws on scriptures and the truths of the Restoration to reframe Christianity's traditional thinking about grace, justice, and sin. He outlines the logic of original sin versus that of original grace and generates fresh insights into how the doctrine of grace relates to justice, creation, forgiveness, and more. 
As we embrace the reality of God's original grace and refuse the logic of original sin, we achieve a deeper understanding of our relationship with Christ and the meaning of his atonement. Christ suffers with us in order to heal our wounds and redeem our suffering. He rescues us from sin by empowering us to exercise our agency and accept God's original offer of grace. He fills us with his pure love by teaching us how to respond to all suffering the same way God does: with even more grace. Indeed, as Miller suggests, the very substance of salvation has always been a grace-filled partnership with Christ.

Original Grace

BYU Maxwell Institute/Deseret Book Company

"Latter-day Saint scholars Adam S. Miller and Rosalynde F. Welch identify and discuss seven gospels of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon"--

Seven Gospels: The Many Lives of Christ in the Book of Mormon

Rosalynde F. Welch

Deseret Book Company

The Christ Child

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Christ and Antichrist: Reading Jacob 7

Fleeing the Garden: Reading Genesis 2-3

An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32

Letters to a Young Mormon, Second Edition

An Early Resurrection: life in Christ Before You Die

Letters to a Young Mormon, Second Edition

Original Grace

Seven Gospels: The Many Lives of Christ in the Book of Mormon

The Christ Child