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Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection
Not Leaving and Going On to Perfection
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A Review of Samuel M. Brown's First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple, Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2014. 167 pp., index.
In his most recent book, First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple (hereafter First Principles), Samuel M. Brown observes that "the Plan of Salvation [is] fundamentally about relationships." This recognition drove the prophet Joseph Smith and early Church members to "forge communities [of saints] that could endure beyond the veil of death" (151). Today, the importance of the temple and its ordinances to family relationships, eternal in their design, are clear to most Latter-day Saints. However, our collective view of the meaning of the principles and ordinances that precede the temple -- and lead us to it -- is somewhat murkier. Brown demonstrates that what Latter-day Saints sometimes perfunctorily regard merely as "the first principles and ordinances of the gospel" (Articles of Faith 1:4) are -- every bit as much as the temple itself is -- about relationships. In fact, one cannot fully contextualize the temple and its ordinances unless one understands this aspect of the first principles and ordinances of the gospel.
In his most recent book, First Principles and Ordinances: The Fourth Article of Faith in Light of the Temple (hereafter First Principles), Samuel M. Brown observes that "the Plan of Salvation [is] fundamentally about relationships." This recognition drove the prophet Joseph Smith and early Church members to "forge communities [of saints] that could endure beyond the veil of death" (151). Today, the importance of the temple and its ordinances to family relationships, eternal in their design, are clear to most Latter-day Saints. However, our collective view of the meaning of the principles and ordinances that precede the temple -- and lead us to it -- is somewhat murkier. Brown demonstrates that what Latter-day Saints sometimes perfunctorily regard merely as "the first principles and ordinances of the gospel" (Articles of Faith 1:4) are -- every bit as much as the temple itself is -- about relationships. In fact, one cannot fully contextualize the temple and its ordinances unless one understands this aspect of the first principles and ordinances of the gospel.
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