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Outlines of Mormon Philosophy: A Concise LDS Theology of God, Agency, Salvation, and Eternal Progression - Couverture souple

Wilson, Lycurgus A.

 
9788028339869: Outlines of Mormon Philosophy: A Concise LDS Theology of God, Agency, Salvation, and Eternal Progression

Synopsis

Outlines of Mormon Philosophy presents a compact yet ambitious exposition of Latter-day Saint thought, organizing doctrines of God, intelligence, matter, agency, salvation, and human destiny into a coherent philosophical scheme. Its style is didactic and orderly, less speculative flourish than catechetical argument, reflecting the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Mormon effort to articulate revealed religion in the language of reasoned theology. The book belongs to a moment when LDS writers sought to answer both Protestant criticism and modern philosophical doubt by showing Mormonism as intellectually systematic. Lycurgus A. Wilson wrote as a committed participant in the intellectual and religious life of his church, drawing on scriptural interpretation, missionary apologetics, and the expansive cosmology characteristic of Joseph Smith's revelations. His concern is not merely to defend isolated beliefs but to demonstrate how Mormon teachings form a unified worldview: material, moral, eternal, and progressive. Readers interested in Mormon theology, American religious philosophy, or the history of LDS self-definition will find this volume especially rewarding. It is best approached as a concise primary text in Mormon intellectual history, illuminating how early Latter-day Saints translated faith into philosophical argument.

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