{"id":99762,"date":"2023-05-01T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=99762"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:08:26","slug":"the-temple-pathway-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2023\/05\/the-temple-pathway-to-heaven.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Temple: Pathway to Heaven”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The Cochabamba Bolivia Temple (LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At the conclusion of last night\u2019s Interpreter Radio Show, in which I joined with Martin Tanner and Terry Hutchinson, Terry kindly gave me a copy of a new book that he and his father in law have just self-published:\u00a0 Grant R. Gifford and Terry L. Hutchinson, The Temple: Pathway to Heaven<\/em> (Alpine, UT:\u00a0 Pine Ridge Publishing, 2022).\u00a0 It looks very interesting, and I eagerly anticipate getting into it.\u00a0 The book is available in paperback form, I notice, at Amazon.com<\/a> and Benchmark Books<\/a>, as well as \u2014 apparently at no charge! \u2014 via Kindle Unlimited<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I liked this customer review on Amazon.com:<\/p>\n

The Temple: Pathway to Heaven<\/em> is a very well-researched deep dive into the origins and meaning of the temple experience. As a convert to the LDS church<\/a>, I am constantly seeking sources that go deeper than the usual spoon fed lessons on Sundays. This book contains detailed footnotes that provide breadcrumbs to many other scholarly publications that explore the symbolism and the connections of the temple to Christ and the atonement. For anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding of and enhance their temple worship experience, this book will be an asset. It has certainly had a positive impact on my own personal faith journey. Well written and filled with truth. Even female apostles get a mention. Very impressed!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of the libraries of Texas A&M University, where VHC teaches
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I pass on a note that I received yesterday from Valerie Hudson Cassler<\/a>,\u00a0 I like what they do at SquareTwo, and I hope that others will, as well:<\/p>\n

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Welcome, dear readers, to the\u00a0Spring 2023<\/a>\u00a0issue of SquareTwo! We have an outstanding issue for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n

First,\u00a0Sarah Coyne<\/a>, Ashley LeBaron-Black, Jane Shawcroft, Megan Gale, J. Andan Sheppard, Chenae Christensen-Duerden, and Megan Van Alfen present \u201cThe Heavenly Mother Artwork Project.\u201d This project aims to examine modern Latter-day Saint art on Heavenly Mother, qualitatively analyzing themes among the variety of depictions. We think our readers will find this a very impressive undertaking, and they will also be treated to images of some of the artwork as a bonus.<\/p>\n

Second and third,\u00a0Morgan Deane<\/a>\u00a0advances an argument that the Book of Mormon does not condemn preemptive war or strikes, and\u00a0Mark Henshaw<\/a>\u00a0argues Deane is wrong. This is a most educational debate, undertaken by two brothers-in-the-Gospel who have each spent long years thinking deeply about these questions. If you want to see what a high-quality Gospel debate looks like, this is the pair of essays for you!<\/p>\n

Fourth,\u00a0Mike Huston<\/a>\u00a0asks whether priesthood or priesthood office circumscribes access to revelation, and concludes it does not. While the scope of our revelation may be determined by these things, our access is not. Thus, unlike all systems of organization in the fallen world, the concept of priesthood does not impose a hierarchy on the children of God.<\/p>\n

Fifth,\u00a0Gwendolyn Stevens Wyne<\/a>\u00a0tells an instructive story about what happened in her California ward during the Proposition 8 campaign of 2008, and what happened after it was over. How did her ward restore relationships torn during that time period? What is the intersection of truth and love?<\/p>\n

Sixth,\u00a0Don Norton<\/a>, who edited several of the volumes in the FARMS series of Hugh Nibley\u2019s work, explains what Hugh Nibley meant in his own life. His anecdotes about his relationship with Nibley make for fascinating reading.<\/p>\n

Seventh, our wonderful book reviewer,\u00a0B. Kent Harrison<\/a>, reviews Brandon Dabling\u2019s book, A New Birth of Marriage: Love, Politics, and the Vision of the Founders, which was published in 2022 by the University of Notre Dame Press. Do you know what the Founders had to say about marriage? What is the relationship between our republic and the vision of marriage its citizens hold? Dabling\u2019s thoughts are well worth considering.<\/p>\n

Eighth, we have a\u00a0new Readers\u2019 Puzzle<\/a>. President Nelson has exhorted us to \u201cLet God prevail\u201d in our lives. Readers, please share with us your stories of how you are doing this, or how you are attempting to do this. We all need your inspiration!<\/p>\n

Last, don\u2019t forget our companion blog,\u00a0The Latterday Crone<\/a>, penned by our own V.H. Cassler which also features real-time commenting. Check it out for more of the SquareTwo experience you enjoy, now on a more frequent basis!<\/p>\n

Enjoy this great new issue of SquareTwo!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In case you\u2019re not aware of his work yet, I would also like to call attention to Jacob Hess<\/a>, whom I consider one of the most interesting thinkers in the current Latter-day Saint community.\u00a0 With this article, he launches an intriguing new series of essays:\u00a0 \u201cInvisible Religion: The Most Popular Religion in America Doesn\u2019t Know It\u2019s One:\u00a0If you don\u2019t direct your trust and love in one place, then you\u2019re going to put it somewhere else.\u00a0 A new series going deeper on socio-political passion for correcting inequity as constituting a new religion competing with Judeo-Christian thought and praxis.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Foundation\u2019s official logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We\u2019re just back from lunch with two former students of mine in the intensive Arabic program that I led in Jerusalem in 1993 as well as two officials of A Child\u2019s Hope Foundation<\/a> (one of whom is also a former Arabic student of mine).\u00a0 It was our hope to put them in contact with each other, so as to further the excellent work that the Foundation is doing.\u00a0 They are an energetic bunch, still relatively young, with a host of international contacts and an enormous amount of international experience (much of it in developing nations), and we realized that they shared a number of common interests in philanthropic service.\u00a0 I was pleased with how things went, and I am confident that good things will come from today\u2019s get-together.\u00a0 Whatever else I accomplish today, this was something positive.\u00a0 Please take a look at the Foundation\u2019s website; perhaps you yourself would like to join the cause in some fashion or another.<\/p>\n

Once again, I quote a statement from the Prophet Joseph Smith that I have always loved:<\/p>\n

\u201cA man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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