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- Title
Ethical Approaches to the Book of Mormon.
- Authors
Becerra, Daniel
- Abstract
Inward-facing work is a strength of current scholarship on Book of Mormon ethics and indeed part of its "pragmatic task" of exploring ways to embody "scripture's imperatives in the life of the Christian community."[28] Such work also reflects some Book of Mormon scholars' commitment to creating a more just world and to be "anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness" (D&C 58:27). If the Book of Mormon is truly a "handbook of instructions" as disciples "travel the pathway from bad to good to better and to have our hearts changed", then future scholarship on Book of Mormon ethics may have a role to play in contributing to this transformative work. Attending to at least these five subjects could help establish a groundwork for scholarship on Book of Mormon ethics that compares the Book of Mormon to other ethical texts and traditions.[42] Such work might examine, for example, overlapping or incongruent forms of moral discourse, ethical standards, and conceptual frameworks. Future scholarship on Book of Mormon ethics, then, would profit from not only continuing to engage in broader scholarly debates, but also from doing so in more diverse venues and with increased attention to what the Book of Mormon specifically, as opposed to the larger Latter-day Saint tradition, may offer to such conversations.
- Subjects
BOOK of Mormon; CONSCIENCE; MORMONS; NATURAL law; DECEPTION; TIANANMEN Square Massacre, China, 1989; WEALTH &; ethics; SEXUAL ethics; YOUNG adults
- Publication
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, 2023, Vol 32, p97
- ISSN
2374-4766
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/23744774.32.07