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St Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Calisthenics
I recently had to do a presentation for my History of Theology class on a text by St. Ignatius of Loyola called The Spiritual Exercises – specifically, the “Annotations” ammended to it. For those who may not be as familiar with St. Ignatius of Loyola: He was born 1491 in Spain and became a strong defender of [...]
Posted in School Journal, Scripture Also tagged grace, Loyola, Marquette University, St Ignatius, works Comments closed
Some Notes about the Apocalypse of Abraham
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 [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Heavenly Ascents, School Journal, Scripture Also tagged Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalyptic Literature, Book of Abraham, Book of Moses, Improvement Era, Premortal Existence, State of the Question Comments closed
The Peculiarly Familiar Doctrines of Origen
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 [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, School Journal, Scripture Also tagged Early Christianity, Early Church Fathers, Godhead, Greek Philosophy, Origen, Pre-existence, Premortal Existence, scriptures Comments closed
Levi’s Initiation into the Angelic Priesthood
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 [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, Priesthood, School Journal, Temple Also tagged Andrei Orlov, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, Levi, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Testament of Levi, Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs Comments closed
The Human Form on God’s Throne
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 [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, School Journal, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Andrei Orlov, anthropomorphic, Deification, divine throne, Ezekiel, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Godhead, Merkavah, Moses, scriptures, Throne Comments closed
When the Angels Worshipped Adam
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 [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, School Journal, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Adamic traditions, Andrei Orlov, anthropomorphic, Apocrypha, Deification, Godhead, Life of Adam and Eve, New Testament, Old Testament, Pre-existence, Premortal Existence, Pseudepigrapha, Satan, Second Adam, Son of Man Comments closed
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