Category Archives: School Journal

Some Notes about the Apocalypse of Abraham

By David Larsen | Published: October 25, 2008
As you may have noted, unfortunately I have not had the time to post as much as I would like to here on Heavenly Ascents. I have been bogged down with multiple papers and presentations for my classes which have taken up most of my time.  I would like, however, to share with you some [...]
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The Peculiarly Familiar Doctrines of Origen

By David Larsen | Published: October 20, 2008
We have recently been discussing the early Christian thinker Origen in my “Age of the Fathers” class. While we have been focusing mostly on his thoughts regarding the Trinity, there has been much in my readings that have struck as peculiarly familiar to my beliefs as a Latter-day Saint. I guess this is to be [...]
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Levi’s Initiation into the Angelic Priesthood

By David Larsen | Published: October 7, 2008
10/07/08 This post will cover our class discussion of the Testament of Levi, an important apocalyptic document. I will not go into an overview of all that the document contains of theological interest–there is a vast number of details that could potentially be interesting to the LDS reader. For a great overview of the relevant [...]
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The Human Form on God’s Throne

By David Larsen | Published: October 1, 2008
  Michelangelo’s Depiction of Moses on a Throne The following post represents research I did for Dr. Orlov’s Apocalyptic Literature class in preparation for a presentation I did on themes from the text of an ancient drama known as Exagoge, written by Ezekiel the Tragedian. This text is only known by fragments of the original [...]
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When the Angels Worshipped Adam

By David Larsen | Published: September 26, 2008
September 26, 2008 Earlier on this week in Dr. Orlov’s class we had an absolute smorgasbord of a discussion.  The subject was the text often called The Life of Adam and Eve, known from the many manuscripts extant in various languages, including Latin, Greek, Slavonic, Coptic (fragments), Georgian, and Armenian. This document is an apocryphal [...]
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On the Apologists and Angel Pneumatology

By David Larsen | Published: September 17, 2008
In my Age of the Fathers class, we have recently been discussing the early Christian apologists. Here follows a few notes: Definition of apologists is rather arbitrary. Lists of who the apologists were varies. The late Richard Norris offered the following definition: The term “Apologists”, as applied to Christian writers of the early period, denotes [...]
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Age of the Fathers: History of Religions Debate

By David Larsen | Published: September 8, 2008
I must apologize for have gone for a whole week without posting anything here. I’m still working out some things with the transfer of this blog to a new server–and also still trying to get used to my new schedule of school and seminary teaching. Anyways, I’m back and have more notes to share with [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: Creation, Adam, and the Fall

By David Larsen | Published: August 31, 2008
This post is a continuation of the last one, where I covered what I learned this week in my Age of the Fathers course. Before moving on to Dr. Andrei Orlov’s class on Apocalyptic Literature, I want to share with you some of the recommended reading titles that Dr. Barnes gave us which refer to early Christianity, [...]
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