Summary of Terryl L. Givens's Wrestling the Angel

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The founding of Mormonism is tied to a series of key truth claims that form part of a historical record. However, Mormonism’s transmission history allows for some degree of equivocation or mythologizing when it comes to the particular claims of the Mormon message.
#2 Smith’s prophetic career was marked by several stages, each marked by substantial doctrinal developments of increasing boldness. The seeds of all his furthest-reaching innovations are present as early as 1830.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• History
• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian Theology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669395980
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Terryl L. Givens's Wrestling the Angel
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22 Insights from Chapter 23 Insights from Chapter 24 Insights from Chapter 25 Insights from Chapter 26 Insights from Chapter 27 Insights from Chapter 28 Insights from Chapter 29 Insights from Chapter 30 Insights from Chapter 31 Insights from Chapter 32 Insights from Chapter 33 Insights from Chapter 34 Insights from Chapter 35 Insights from Chapter 36 Insights from Chapter 37 Insights from Chapter 38 Insights from Chapter 39 Insights from Chapter 40 Insights from Chapter 41 Insights from Chapter 42 Insights from Chapter 43 Insights from Chapter 44 Insights from Chapter 45 Insights from Chapter 46 Insights from Chapter 47 Insights from Chapter 48 Insights from Chapter 49 Insights from Chapter 50 Insights from Chapter 51 Insights from Chapter 52 Insights from Chapter 53 Insights from Chapter 54
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The founding of Mormonism is tied to a series of key truth claims that form part of a historical record. However, Mormonism’s transmission history allows for some degree of equivocation or mythologizing when it comes to the particular claims of the Mormon message.

#2

Smith’s prophetic career was marked by several stages, each marked by substantial doctrinal developments of increasing boldness. The seeds of all his furthest-reaching innovations are present as early as 1830.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The term theology is used by Mormons to describe reasoned discourse about God, and they have never had a set of dogmatic beliefs. The Articles of Faith, which were created in 1842, were intended to find a balance between total conformity and radical difference.

#2

The church’s history of relying on the principle of continuing revelation has resulted in a tradition of teachings that is extremely fluid and difficult to pin down. The most important vehicle for asserting the authority of church teachings or revelations is canonization, but this has not occurred very often since Joseph Smith’s era.

#3

Christian theology was generally too reticent in probing beyond the bounds of the biblically revealed. Mormonism, on the other hand, expands its purview in both directions - pre-Creation and post-redemption.

#4

The Book of Mormon, Smith’s first and major scriptural production, did not serve as the primary basis for Mormon theology. The Doctrine and Covenants, which was a more self-conscious exposition of Mormon doctrine, was published in 1834.

#5

The lectures were not intended to be a comprehensive theological exposition of Mormonism, but rather to aid missionaries in a measure in doctrine. However, Smith’s teachings have always been heavily influenced by Parley Pratt, who published his influential Voice of Warning in 1837.

#6

Parley Pratt, the founder of Mormonism, was a missionary and systematizer of Smith’s teachings. He defined the essential features of the Kingdom of God, and confirmed its organization and offices as consistent with the New Testament pattern.

#7

The Pearl of Great Price, which was published in 1880, was written by Joseph Smith’s successor, Brigham Young. It was a virtual fifth scriptural volume of the church. The Seer, which was published by Orson Pratt, was a defense of three Mormon teachings: the ancient Patriarchal Order of Matrimony, or Plurality of Wives, the Celestial origin and pre-existence of the spirits of men, and their final redemption and exaltation as gods.

#8

After polygamy was ended, the focus of Mormon theology shifted from the relational to the personal. Theology became what happens when revelation fails, and Mormonism began to separate itself from Christianity.

#9

A brief efflorescence of Mormon thought occurred when three luminaries produced intellectually rigorous attempts to systematize and elaborate a comprehensive theology. However, the church’s official imprimatur marked these works as authoritative teaching rather than speculative theology.

#10

The 1930s saw the emergence of higher criticism, which marked a new direction in church orthodoxy. The Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in Protestantism spread to the Mormon Church in the 1920s and ’30s, and resulted in a period of retrenchment.

#11

The book’s success is a testament to the human proclivity for dogma. Mormonism has no creed. But McConkie did more to shape popular conceptions of Mormon teaching than any figure in the twentieth century.

#12

The Mormon faith tradition has a history of developing and changing its theological foundations. The question is how to establish general grounds for their relative authority.

#13

The Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price are the four standard works of Mormonism. They have paramount authority in shaping Mormon teachings and grounding their authority.

#14

Smith’s successors were also divided on how inspired some of Smith’s pronouncements were. The King Follett Discourse, which was published just weeks after Smith’s death, was considered doctrine by some, but not by others.

#15

The shifting doctrines and policies within Mormonism are just one example of how the church must reconcile its claims of prophetic authority and oracular power with its commitment to evolving doctrine.

#16

Mormonism, like Catholicism and some varieties of Protestantism, claims that doctrine not only can but must evolve as a living tradition. The church’s ninth Article of Faith asserts that God will yet reveal many great and important things, similar to the words of the Congregationalist minister George MacDonald.

#17

The case of the priesthood ban is important not only for the gravity of what’s at stake, but also because it represents a crucial moment in the LDS Church’s self-understanding and self-definition as a human institution of divine origin.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The idea that orthodoxy is defined by chronological precedence, which was held by Catholics and Protestants for almost two thousand years, was challenged in the nineteenth century. Americans began to believe that Christian teachings and practice had undergone radical change in previous centuries.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

Restorationism is the idea that we should return to a purer Christianity, and it has been around for quite some time. It was popularized in the early nineteenth century by Barton Stone and Thomas Campbell, who led movements that emphasized a return to a purer Christianity.

#2

When Smith was young, he was troubled by the verbal violence of preachers trying to convert people in camp meetings and Sunday sermons.