Alma 30-63: Book of Mormon Conversations with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Sun, Oct 18
|Online Event
Join Widtsoe Foundation Board Member Chris Eastland and author Mark Wrathall as they preview his latest volume, Alma 30-63: a brief theological introduction.
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Oct 18, 2020, 2:00 PM PDT
Online Event
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Replay "Alma 30-63: Book of Mormon Conversations with the Neal A. Maxwell Institute"
In this week’s Book of Mormon Conversation, John A. Widtsoe Foundation Board Member will be speaking with Oxford professor Mark Wrathall about his brief theological introduction to the last 33 chapters of the book of Alma.
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…