Original Grace - A Conversation with Adam Miller
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ย. 2022
- For today’s episode, we were lucky enough to bring back Latter-day Saint philosopher and theologian Adam Miller to talk about his new book, Original Grace. Of the many incredible books we’ve read from Adam, this one, we think, might have the most potential to really change the way we engage God and the world.
We’ll let Adam explain the major theses of the book, but we’ll just say that in many ways it entirely upends traditional understandings of concepts like justice, suffering, mercy, punishment, and, of course - grace. For anyone that has ever felt that they simply aren’t good enough, Adam mines Latter-day Saint scripture and teachings to show that it was never our job to “save ourselves.” As he puts it, “grace-filled partnership with Christ” was the plan all along.
Adam even shares some recent scholarship that shows that one of our faith’s foundational scriptures about grace - “it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do” - has been misread and misunderstood so widely, and for so long, that its original meaning has been almost reversed.
Adam Miller earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University. This book, Original Grace, was published by BYU’s Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book. Adam is the author of several others, including some of our favorites like Letters to a Young Mormon and An Early Resurrection.
This is an interesting conversation that some people might enjoy more if they go to settings and slow it down a bit to the .75 speed. Thank you for posting this. I think Adam Miller is brilliant.
Adam's ability to think clearly and express profound thoughts in such approachable terms has touched my soul over and over again. Thanks to all three of you for touching our lives in unforgettable ways. You are definitely doing what is needful in every moment you spend making Faith Matters a reality... by providing us with great doses of love!
When baking bread the first step is to “prove the yeast.” It’s not a test. It’s what the yeast is made for. The nature of the yeast is to rise and to cause the rest of the loaf to rise with it 💚🙏 When God set about to “prove us now herewith” - he knew we were designed to rise. He made us for that purpose 😇
Wow. I've heard several episodes of your show that were very timely for me in the moment I was listening, and very helpful. That was a great experience each time. But this one takes that experience to the next level. This episode made me sit on the edge of my chair for the full hour. Thank you so much, all three of you. Love from a non-LDS listener.
I listen to this over and over and read this book and Adam's book "An Early Resurrection" over and over, and learn something new every time. I am grateful to Adam Miller for opening our minds to that which has been needed so much.
Thank you Adam. Your book has affected me as much as any I have ever read. Thank you Aubrey and Tim. I sometimes worry that because your channel doesn’t have a million subscribers that you will eventually lose interest. Please don’t. Your work has touched and changed me, and I am grateful for you. I know that that isn’t everything, but it is something.
WONDERFUL 💕!! Keep up the great work.. I love your guests and topics. Inspiring and loved❤️🎀
I loved this one!! This is a game changer. Thank you for the work that you do.
I was in the temple and looked up the word mercy in the index and found mosiah
This has caused a huge shift in my life's purpose. Thank you.❤
beautiful thank you!!
Original Grace was an absolutely phenomenal book! I keep it by my bedside with my scriptures to re-read and remind me of eternal principles and truths I’m striving to incorporate in my life 💝 Justice and mercy are two sides of the same coin, a proving of contraries that most of us struggle to understand. Thank you for shining a clear light on a path we don’t often take in our entrenched thinking habits and unhealthy personal narratives. I firmly believe many people are desperately trying to communicate love for each other and for God, but lack understanding and tools. So grateful SO grateful for Adam’s inspired words supported by scriptures … 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻 Thank you for this brilliant interview🔥 Keep it up please!!!
Thank you for this wonderful conversation
These are true principles. I am so grateful for Adam Miller’s beautiful articulation of that which I too have come to understand. I would simply add one element that I have also discovered to be foundational in my own journey embracing the simple yet sacred space of Grace described here. “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love (Grace), which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.”
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Wow! This was powerful! I would love to hear Adam's thoughts about how "Grace" could be involved with Temple recommend/worthiness and Church Courts.
Why do people feel it necessary to change what Nephi recorded in 2 Nephi 25: 23? What if Nephi meant exactly what is written? What if “after all we can do” means what it says? In that same verse, Nephi tells us to be reconciled to God just before the “for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do.” This same doctrine is taught by Nephi’s brother, Jacob - “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.” (2 Nephi 10: 24). Note that pesky word “after” is also found here.
Oh boy, that was a reframing for sure on Grace and it didn’t really sit well with me as I had thought of Grace but then I realized we are ALL saved. There’s a kingdom for everyone. Everyone receives Salvation.
Philosophers....I'm not a fan. Their opinions blow with the wind according to their own comfort zone.