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Guide Home > Doctrinal Issues > Temples and Temple Work
Additional TopicsThe following are additional topic areas related to Temples and Temple Work. If there is a bracket number after the topic, that number indicates how many actual articles there are related to that subject. If the link for the topic is not live, it simply means the topic is a 'planned area' for future growth.
FAIR ResourcesThese links are either to Web pages hosted on the FAIR Website, or to FAIR Papers. FAIR Papers are short articles about specific topics or questions, written by members of FAIR. These articles can be downloaded and read in PDF format and are intended to be distributed by e-mail or print for the general use of our patrons. (To read FAIR Papers you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader. It can be downloaded free from the Adobe Web site.) Click on a title below to visit a FAIR Web page or to read the latest version of a FAIR Paper. "Do temples always face east," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki article answer the questioin: Do LDS temples always face east? "Temple work for Holocaust victims," FAIR Wiki (City Unknown: FAIR) This FAIR Wiki article addresses the Church's practice of doing temple work for Holocaust victims. Steven J. Danderson, "The Impact of LDS Temples on Local Property Values," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, February 2003) This FAIR Paper examines whether the presence of an LDS temple in a community lowers surrounding residential property values. Benjamin McGuire, "The Temple," Mormonism 201 (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR) Ben McGuire answers McKeever and Johnson’s charges regarding issues surrounding LDS temples and temple ordinances. John A. Tvedtnes, "Early Christian and Jewish Rituals Related to Temple Practices," (1999 FAIR Conference presentation.) Were unique LDS temple practices also known to early Jews and Christians? Encyclopedia of MormonismThe resources listed below are articles available in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Elma W. Fugal, "Salvation of the Dead," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1257-1259 Immo Luschin, Richard O. Cowan and D. Arthur Haycock; "Temples," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 1447-1465 Ensign ArticlesThese articles cited below provide information on the topic of this page. The Ensign is one of the official publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When you click on one of the article links below, you are whisked to the article found in the archives of the Church's Web site. Donald Q. Cannon, Larry E. Dahl and John W. Welch; "The Restoration of Major Doctrines through Joseph Smith: Priesthood, the Word of God, and the Temple," Ensign, February 1989, 7. ElRay L. Christiansen, "Some Things You Need to Know About the Temple," Ensign, January 1972, 64. Richard O. Cowan, "The Unfolding Restoration of Temple Work," Ensign, December 2001. Mark E. Petersen, "Why Mormons Build Temples," Ensign, January 1972, 42. Jay M. Todd, "In His Holy House," Ensign, March 1993, 32. Nice pictures of inside the Salt Lake Temple. Other ResourcesThe resources listed below are related items available on the Web that should be of interest. These links are to information not located on the FAIR Web site. Dr. William Hamblin, "Tract Made Without Evidence". Hamblin respond's to James White's (of Alpha & Omega Ministry) e-tract, "Temples Made Without Hands." Hamblin takes White to task for claiming that a true Christian Church would not construct temples. Dr. William Hamblin and James White, Christian's and Temple Building: A Discussion of the Issue by Dr. William Hambling and "Dr." James White. Hamblin & White debate (by email) the issue of Christian Temples -- see "Tract Made Without Evidence." Lynn M. Hilton, The Hand as a Cup in Ancient Temple Worship. Truman G. Madsen, "The Temple and the Atonement," (16 October 1994) A discourse on the topic, condensed from a lecture given at Saratoga, California. Hugh W. Nibley, "The Early Christian Prayer Circle," BYU Studies (1979), 1-37 The nature of the early Christian prayer circle may be described by letting the oldest documents speak for themselves, beginning with the latest and moving backwards to the earliest. The rite was depicted for the last time in a document read to the assembled churchmen of the Second Council of Nicaea in A.D. 787 and condemned by them to the flames. Their objection was to parts of the text that proclaimed the Gnostic doctrine of the total immateriality of Christ; on the subject of the prayer circle, which was strange to them, they preserved a discreet silence. Actually that part of it was an excerpt taken from a much older writing, the Acts of John, being the earliest apocryphal Christian Acta, dating at least to the early third century. The further back we go the more prominent becomes the rite in the church. Donald W. Parry, "He That Hath Clean Hands and a Pure Heart: Three Temple Entrance Hymns," (Provo, Utah: FARMS) FARMS audio of Parry's lecture on the Temple. Hugh W. Pinnock, "Temples: Then, Now, and Forever," (Provo, Utah: FARMS) FARMS audio of Elder Pinnock's presentation on the Temple. W. John Walsh, Do You Have Blood Oaths in the Temple?. W. John Walsh, Do You Use Satanic Symbols in the Temple?. W. John Walsh, Why Is a Temple Recommend Necessary to Enter the Temple?.
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