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The Book of Mormon—“The New Covenant” The Book of Mormon—“The New Covenant”
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Literal and Spiritual Israel Literal and Spiritual Israel
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Old and New Testaments Old and New Testaments
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National versus Individual National versus Individual
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Old and New Gospels Old and New Gospels
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Reassurance Reassurance
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The Church of Christ—“The New and Everlasting Covenant” The Church of Christ—“The New and Everlasting Covenant”
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Adoption and the Family of God Adoption and the Family of God
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Conceptualizing Zion Conceptualizing Zion
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Populating Zion (The Gathering) Populating Zion (The Gathering)
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Populating Zion (Colonization) Populating Zion (Colonization)
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Millennialism Deferred Millennialism Deferred
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Stake-Building Stake-Building
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Temples Dot the Earth Temples Dot the Earth
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2 Latter-day Saint Covenant Theology
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Published:June 2017
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Abstract
Protestant covenant theology is predicated on opposition of Old Testament and New Testament, literal Israel and spiritual Israel, covenant of works and covenant of grace, Moses and the gospel. The Book of Mormon conflates all those polarities into the New and Everlasting Covenant that became central to Smith’s understanding of his prophetic calling and the massive project of “restoration” to which he devoted his life. When Smith published the Book of Mormon, the scripture’s title page heralded a new version of covenant theology, with an emphatic declaration of salvational assurance: the Book of Mormon’s very purpose, its final editor tells readers on the title page itself, is “to show unto the remnant of the House of Israel that they are not cast off forever.” Smith pushes the time frame of the covenant into premortal worlds and defines apostasy as the loss of this cosmic context and purpose of making the human family divine. Executing the plan involves adoption, an earthly Zion, and temples for sacraments. 107
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