Seven Visions
Learning how to hear God’s voice should be vitally important to all of us, especially as our prophet has urged us to seek Christ more intentionally. President Russell M. Nelson recently asked, “What will happen as you more intentionally hear, hearken, and heed what the Savior has said and what He is saying now through His prophets?” (“Hear Him,” Liahona, May 2020).
As a people, we commonly strain our ears to “hear him” (Joseph Smith—History 1:17). We seek God’s voice in scripture. But are we also intentional about seeking his face, about not only hearing the words he speaks but seeing the visions he opens?
Following their co-authored Seven Gospels, Rosalynde Welch and Adam Miller turn their attention to visions of Christ recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants. Written as a series of letters between friends, the authors explore how Christ shows himself in seven of the revelations from the Doctrine and Covenants. Some visions are spectacular, some intimate. Some visual, some conceptual. But all increase our capacity to “see him as he is” (Doctrine and Covenants 130:1).
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Adam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He earned a BA in comparative literature from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD in philosophy from Villanova University. He is the author of more than ten books, including, Letters to a Young Mormon, An Early Resurrection, and Original Grace.
Rosalynde F. Welch is a senior research fellow and associate director at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. She holds a BA in English from BYU and a PhD in early modern English literature from the University of California San Diego. She is the author of numerous articles on Latter-day Saint theology and scripture and of Ether: A Brief Theological Introduction