Notes Toward a Report: Question 4
What is unique about a Mormon understanding of Abraham?
posted by Adam Miller at 1:30 PM
Monday, October 22, 2007
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Key Questions
- 1. If Abraham is the paradigm of fidelity to God, then what are the essential elements of this faithful relationship?
- 2. What can Abraham's relationship with God tell us about the nature and possibility of theology?
- 3. How do our family relationships shape our fidelity to God and, potentially, the kind of theology we pursue?
- 4. Finally, in light of the above, what is unique about a Mormon understanding of Abraham?
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Previous Posts
- Gift of Death - Chapter 4
- "Whom To Give To"
- Derrida's Gift of Death, chapter 2: "Beyond"
- The Gift of Death, chapter 1
- Problema III -- more
- Problema III
- Fear and Trembling: "Problema II"
- Fear and Trembling: "Problema I"
- FEAR & TREMBLING: "Preliminary Expectoration"
- Abe 5
4 Comments:
Genesis 16
- what about the connections between Gen 16 and D&C 132? the differences in the account of how/why a second wife is taken?
Genesis 20-21
- in the entire Genesis account of Abraham he is “old”; a uniquely Mormon understanding of Abraham will be an understanding of Abraham as other than “old”?
Genesis 22
- does this double loss of both Ishmael and Isaac connect with Mormon doctrines about the loss and risk inherent in the plan of salvation?
Abraham 1
- the most striking difference between Genesis and Abraham: the shift from an brisk, impersonal, third-person narrative to a detailed and self-conscious first-person narration?
- the shift in narrative style is exemplified in the shift toward explanation for why things are done (some Genesis is very short on)
- this shift is more “Mormon” because explanation and a discussion of priesthood “rights” is more works oriented and intelligible? de-emphasizing the mysterious, unconditional and unaccountable intervention of God?
- what do we do with the “Pharaoh” who is righteous and blessed but denied the priesthood?
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