Mormon Redeeming Grace - Softcover

Draney, John W.

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ISBN 10: 1482370115 ISBN 13: 9781482370119

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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This book is a compilation of posts related to the doctrines of atonement and grace, which posts originate on the Mormon Redeeming Grace blog during the year 2012.

Although I have made some editorial refinements and certain formatting modifications, what follows materially conforms to the original content.

The majority of these posts—critiques, responses, rants—apply the canonical standards set forth in the book Redeeming Grace in the Canon of the Restoration (Amazon CreateSpace and Kindle 2011) to the doctrines of atonement and grace in selected addresses and articles by prominent Latter-day Saints.

The remainder—essays, thoughts, explanations of one kind or another—examine these important doctrines.

I argue that there is a pervasive yet unperceived significant discrepancy between the doctrines of atonement and grace in the canon of the Restoration and the mainstream teaching, expounding, and explanation of these doctrines (what I term Mormonspeak) from the pulpit of the Restoration.

In other words, the canon and the pulpit are at odds with one another and have been locked in an unacknowledged battle royal for at least the last 40 years, if not longer.

What is remarkable is that no one seems to notice.

I do.

This book begins to document the particulars of the peculiar, unwarranted, and disconcerting struggle between canon and pulpit in the restored church of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These conspicuous missteps are everywhere, but the moment that we Latter-day Saints begin to see them, they will start to diminish, and then they will disappear altogether, for no one will want to say or write anything that is utterly contrary to the properly understood doctrines of atonement and grace in the canon of the Restoration.

What should come as no surprise to anyone is the fact that the canon, the best of the best, will ultimately prevail over the errors from the pulpit.

One day the true doctrines of atonement and grace will overcome the deleterious, injurious, and extensive errors of legalism.

In that blessed day, I hope that no one is disappointed.

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About the Author

JOHN W. DRANEY is the father of four children and resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.

He believes in Christ according to the tradition of the restored church of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but plainly sees in scripture what others of this faith do not, which peculiar, exasperating condition has greatly influenced and motivated the writing of this book and his first book, Redeeming Grace in the Canon of the Restoration (Amazon CreateSpace and Kindle 2011).

John, a lover of doctrine, believes that the plain and precious doctrines of atonement and grace in the canon of the Restoration will ultimately triumph over decades and decades of misperception, misunderstanding, and misinterpretation.

May that day come sooner rather than later.

Until then, John intends to hold up the brilliant white-hot light of scripture to many addresses and articles in Latter-day Saint culture that inexplicably and on occasion radically diverge from the doctrinal benchmark of the canon of the Restoration.

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