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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Douglas Davie, Mormon studies, culture, salvation, LDS, grace

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Humanities

Department

Philosophy

Abstract

The doctrine of salvation by grace has been a much discussed and differently interpreted aspect of Latter-day Saint theology both within the general membership of the Church and outside it. A recent, in-depth treatment of Latter-day Saint views and cultural traditions regarding salvation, written by prominent religious scholar Douglas J. Davies, discussed the Mormon understanding of grace and provided a wonderful academic opportunity to explore the issue using the foil of an informed outsider opinion with which to set out the Latter-day Saint doctrine of grace from Joseph Smith to the present. Dr. David Paulsen and his staff prepared a response to Davies’s perception of the Mormon culture of salvation approaching specifically the doctrine of grace and its sustained presence in Latter-day Saint culture particularly through the LDS hymn tradition and the teachings of the prophets and apostles of the modern Church.

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