The Time of Sin

Title

The Time of Sin

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

2014

Authors

Spencer, Joseph (Primary)

Journal

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Pagination

87-110

Volume

9

URL

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-time-of-sin/

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.

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Subject Keywords

Sin
Prophet
Samuel the Lamanite

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