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Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 9 (2014)
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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
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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.
Sin
Prophet
Samuel the Lamanite
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