Tag Archives: Deification

Engraved on the Throne of Glory

By David Larsen | Published: June 23, 2008
Insights from Dr. Andrei Orlov’s “The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary” One of my main intentions when I decided to commence this blog was to share some of the great materials I have come in contact with as I have studied at Marquette University. I have had many great professors in the [...]
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Jesus, Yahweh, and the Temple: Part II

By David Larsen | Published: June 18, 2008
Representing the Heavenly on Earth: The Temple We now look at the Temple, the place where Heaven is represented on Earth. Eusebius knew that Moses had built the Tabernacle as an imitation of the visions he had be given on Sinai (Exod 25:8, 40): And Moses himself, having first been thought worthy to view the [...]
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Isaiah’s Heavenly Ascent to See the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

By David Larsen | Published: June 9, 2008
Insights from the Ascension of Isaiah The Ascension of Isaiah is an early Christian document that is thought to have been written some time in the second century A.D., and is considered a Christian re-working of an older Jewish tradition. It resembles, in some ways, Isaiah 6, but details a much more elaborate vision, in [...]
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The Hymn of the Pearl, a.k.a. The Hymn of the Soul, a.k.a. The Hymn of the Robe of Glory

By David Larsen | Published: June 3, 2008
My professor, Dr. Andrei Orlov, introduced me to a poem that I think more Latter-day Saints should know about. It is found within the apocryphal work The Acts of Thomas, which is known to have circulated in the 4th century and recounts the missionary journeys of Judas Thomas the Apostle to India. It is known in [...]
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Deification: A Popular Topic

By David Larsen | Published: May 29, 2008
The subject of deification (of which the Ascent to Heaven is often a part) has been, interestingly, hard to avoid in some of my classes at Marquette. The following is taken from a journal entry from my first semester, in which I had a class on New Testament Method from Dr. Andrei Orlov and on the History of [...]
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