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Description
This book is based on a novel idea: that Mormons do theology. “Doing theology” is different from weighing history, deciding doctrine, or inspiring devotion, though it sometimes overlaps with those things. Theology speculates. It experiments with questions, tests new angles, and pulls loose threads. It reads familiar texts in careful and creative new ways. In this collection of essays, six scholars theologically examine Alma chapter 32 in the Book of Mormon, which contains some of the most insightful verses about faith in the entire Latter-day Saint canon. Not only do these scholars shed new light on Alma 32, they also provide exemplary models for improved scripture study more generally.
Copyright Status
© 2014 by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
ISBN
978-0-8425-2870-2
Owning Institution
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Publisher
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Publication Date
2014
Disciplines
Religion | Religious Education
Recommended Citation
Miller, Adam S., "An Experiment on the Word: Reading Alma 32" (2014). Maxwell Institute Publications. 7.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/7