Skyler Hamilton and Aaron Shafovaloff discuss various LDS views of pre-mortal intelligence(s), spirits, spirit birth, “literal” fatherhood, etc., and compare them with a Christian view of the eternal fatherhood and fecundity of God.
Mentioned resources
- Distinctive Christianity podcast
- The Origin of the Human Spirit in Early Mormon Thought, by Van Hale (chapter 11 in Line Upon Line)
- The Idea of Preexistence in Mormon Thought, by Blake T. Ostler
- The Source of God’s Authority: One Argument for an Unambiguous Doctrine of Preexistence, by Roger Terry
- “The First Principles of Man Are Self-Existent with God” The Immortality of the Soul in Mormon Theology, by Brent L. Top
- The Origin of Man: 1909 First Presidency Message
- The Father and the Son (1916)
- What is Doctrine?: A Latter-Day Saint Systematic Theology, by Peter Carmack (two volumes)
- Tripartite existentialism, by Jonathan Stapley
- The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine, by Thomas G. Alexander
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