Helaman: A Brief Theological Introduction

The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, Book 8

"Now is the time and the day of your salvation..."

Alma the Younger is forever changed by an overwhelming personal experience with God's mercy, a mercy capable of overpowering justice and giving Alma the means to exercise faith unto repentance. Driven by his new desire to share the joy that God s mercy brings, Alma confronts the apostate Korihor, preaches a sermon on faith to the Zoramite outcasts, and encourages and consoles his sons. His ministry cannot be understood apart from the miraculous transformation initiated and powered by God s mercy.

In this brief introduction to the second half of the book of Alma, philosopher Mark Wrathall painstakingly works out the logic of Alma s understanding of faith, justice, mercy, and the final judgment and restoration of all things, encouraging listeners to receive salvation today.

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And I thought Democratic Socialism was dead

Writer Kimberly Berkey just had to inflict her political views on the unsuspecting reader. How very disappointing. She did a pretty job of interpreting what was happening in Helaman but she just couldn't keep her arch-feminist, Democratic Socialism views to herself. I hope she never finds her way to a CES classroom.