Keywords
sin, Book of Mormon, Helaman 13, theological reading
Abstract
This essay provides a close theological reading of Helaman 13, the first part of the sermon of Samuel the Lamanite. Beginning from the insight that the chapter focuses intensely on time, it develops a theological case for how sin has its own temporality. Sin opens up a disastrous future, deliberately misremembers the past, and complicates the constitution of the present as the past of the future.
Recommended Citation
Spencer, Joseph M.
(2014)
"The Time of Sin,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 9, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol9/iss1/6
