“. . . that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth.”
\nAlma is an idolatrous man until an angel s rebuke leads to repentance and two decades of righteous service in realms both political and religious. But Alma s past haunts him. He abdicates political power in order to focus more fully on his ministry. When war against Nephite dissenters shatters the community, he laments.<\/p>\n
In this brief theological introduction to the first twenty-nine chapters of the book of Alma, literary scholar Kylie Nielson Turley considers how Alma s profound transformation from anti-Christ to high priest of the church of God can deepen our understanding of Christ s mercy. What if God forgives and forgets but humans do not? Does following God ensure a less painful life? Is it faithless to mourn, question, or cry out when beset by sin, violence, or death?<\/p>\n
Turley foregrounds Alma as a man who sinned grievously and who was grievously sinned against, a man who found hope and healing in the darkest abyss, a man whose words offer hope and healing to a burdened world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60718,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[55],"product_cat":[107],"product_tag":[1084],"class_list":["post-60717","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-brigham-distributing","product_cat-book-of-mormon","product_tag-202204inventoryconfirmed","pa_writer-turley-kylie-nielson","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n