5.4 Agency and its opposition

Agency is critical to the plan of salvation, and the adversary wanted it gone. But how? Philip L. Barlow wrote a banger of an article in Dialogue looking at prevailing theories, and argues the theology yields critical implications for how Mormons interact with government, politics, and church organization.  It’s a great read!!!

Philip L. Barlow has a doctorate of theology (Th.D.) from the Harvard Divinity School and serves on the boards of directors for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and the Dialogue Foundation.  How cool is that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Barlow

Link to our Face in Hat discord server!

https://discord.gg/MnSMvKHvwh

Dialogue Podcast Network

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/

Article for today: “Shards of Combat: How Did Satan Seek to Destroy the Agency of Man?”, by Philip L. Barlow

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/shards-of-combat/

The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens

https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/

Darlene Young’s “A plan of salvation” isn’t yet published, but will appear in Irreantum’s next issue, “The Plan”.

https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/

Moses 4:3

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/4?lang=eng#p3

Bonus!  Jaywalking chat was cut from the episode, but enjoy Adam Ruins Everything - Why Jaywalking Is a Crime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s