Sacred Symbols Finding Meaning in Rites Rituals & Ordinances 1st Ed Gaskill LDS

Description: Sacred Symbols Finding Meaning in Rites Rituals & Ordinances 1st Ed Gaskill LDS _________________________________ Sacred Symbols: Finding Meaning in Rites, Rituals and Ordinancesby Alonzo L. GaskillPublished by Cedar Fort, Inc (2011) Condition:LIKE NEW 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! The binding is tight and all 310 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The covers look perfect! The dust jacket is in excellent condition with no rips, folds or tears, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:By divine design, rites, rituals, and ordinances are filled with symbolic meaning intended to help us better understand God's Plan. If we do not understand the symbols, we cannot fully understand our covenants. In this new book, author Alonzo L. Gaskill presents divers ancient and modern rituals which are illustrative of symbols and practices Latter-day Saints may recognize. The ordinances of the Gospel are both the vehicle by which we make covenants and also a means by which God seeks to teach us. This truly unique book will guide you to a richer understanding of, and appreciation for, what you hold sacred. Some Book Reviews:Bradford rated it & it was amazing!Gaskill’s Early Christian History was one of the best courses I took at BYU. He has a talent for connecting Mormonism to early Christianity and placing our rites and rituals in a context that draws us into unity with historical Christians. We often view ourselves as being outside the norm (which may be warranted) and it is refreshing to see how deep the roots of our liturgical worship really go. Amanda rated it & it was amazing!I would recommend this book to all Mormons (and symbol-curious non-Mormons, I suppose). I could not put it down and learned so much! I imagine this will be my fave LDS book of 2014. Bonus: the author is a BYU professor and my dad's counselor in the stake presidency. Mitchell rated it & it was amazing!When I was preparing to go to the Temple the first time, I took a "temple prep" class like most members do. Now, I don't know about the class that everyone else received, but I came away from mine with the simple concept of "temples use symbols." Yes, they certainly do, but they didn't really prepare me in any way. Instead, this book would have been a much better introduction to the temple the myriad symbols utilized within. Alonzo Gaskill also wrote "The Lost Language of Symbolism", which I would highly recommend as well. However, that book discusses common scriptural symbols; specifically Jewish symbols that are commonly overlooked by modern readers. This book focuses more on the symbols of various ordinances, but specifically focuses in on the Temple. Now, Gaskill tries to differentiate his book from LDS apologist books that seek to establish the ancient roots of the modern Temple Endowment as being a book that seeks to explore what different aspects of modern ordinances and temples meant in antiquity. And he does that, but I think the end result is much the same. Gaskill seems to do a good job of referencing a lot of different sources and faiths and explaining what the different symbols meant to them, but I couldn't say if he cherry-picked the ones that most resonate with LDS members or not. Most of his references are Judeo-Christian from the inter-Testament writings or early Christian writings, but he does get into a few other religions as well. As in his other book, reading through the chapter footnotes is highly recommended. Gaskill points out early on that symbolism is used in large part because, like Christ's parables, they can mean different things to different people at different times, and that's ok. What this book does, in my view, is two-fold: One, it gives a jumping off point for our own contemplation of Temple symbols. The Temple can be a little overwhelming at first, and this book helps one to see that almost everything we see and do in the Temple symbolizes something. As we consider the some of the meaning of these symbols, perhaps we can more easily relate the Temple to our own lives. Two, the book impressively shows a lot of ancient references to everything we do in the Temple, showing the LDS readers the continuity of Temple Worship from antiquity to our own era. I enjoyed this book quite a bit and would highly recommend it, especially to those preparing or who have just gone through the Temple themselves. Jeanne Young rated it & it was amazing!This book will be most helpful for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints who make covenants in the LDS temples. The ordinance of the Sacrament is one of the few symbol laden events a member may experience in an LDS chapel, so it is often confusing for LDS members who are not used to the layering of meaning through symbols to find covenant making in an LDS temple replete with symbols. The author shows world-wide, modern and ancient patterns of most of the rites and rituals practiced in the LDS temples enriching meaning and tying them to the ancient temple practices. Copyright © 2018-2022 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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