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TitleThe Time of Sin
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsSpencer, Joseph
JournalInterpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture
Volume9
Pagination87-110
KeywordsProphet; Samuel the Lamanite; Sin
Abstract

This essay provides a close theological reading of Helaman 13, the first part of the sermon of Samuel the Lamanite. Beginning from the insight that the chapter focuses intensely on time, it develops a theological case for how sin has its own temporality. Sin opens up a disastrous future, deliberately misremembers the past, and complicates the constitution of the present as the past of the future.

URLhttps://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/the-time-of-sin/

Scripture Reference

Helaman 13:1-39