An Examination of the Pearl - Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

1.1 Examination

1.2 Disputation

1.3 Publication

2 Foreword to the June 2010 Edition

3 Introduction to the June 2010 Edition

4 Conservative Laestadianism

4.1 Spiritual Heritage

4.1.2 Laestadius

4.1.3 Raattamaa and His Contemporaries

4.1.4 The Keys and Conversions

Other Early Conversions

The Discovery of the Keys

4.1.5 Mysticism

The New Awakening

The Apostolic Lutheran Federation

4.2 The Kingdom of God

4.2.1 The One True Church

Biblical Justification

4.2.2 Which “True Church”?

The Christian Convention Church

The Churches of Christ

The New Apostolic Church

More Than Conquerors Faith Church

4.2.3 Inside vs. Outside

Separation from the World

Persecution Complex

Caricature and Blame

“Narrow-Minded”

4.2.4 The Call to the Kingdom

4.2.5 Conversion

The Proclamation of Absolution

Personal Experiences

4.2.6 Obedience and Humility

4.2.7 Servants of the Word

4.3.1 Creation and the Fall of Man

Conflicts with Science

Evolving Doctrine

4.3.2 Noah and the Ark

4.3.3 The Old Testament

Ancient Israelite Laestadianism

The “Wilderness Journey”

Continuity with the New Testament

4.3.4 Inerrancy

4.3.5 Hermeneutics

Allegory and Symbolism

4.3.6 Value and Limits

4.4 Spiritual Entities

4.4.1 The Father

Unchanging and Eternal

Omnibenevolence

4.4.3 The Holy Ghost

4.4.4 The Mother

4.4.6 The Enemy of Souls

4.4.7 False Spirits

4.5 Justification

4.6.1 Specifics

Primary Motives

Authoritarianism

Sins of the Right

Sins Unto Death

Thoughts and Words

4.6.2 Forgiveness of Sins

The Proclamation of Personal Absolution

The Sole Means of Grace

From Faith to Faith

Public Proclamations

Getting it in Writing

4.6.3 Confession

4.7 The Life of a Believer

4.7.1 Joys and Sorrows

4.7.3 Sacraments

The Lord’s Supper

Christian Upbringing

Women’s “God-given Lot”

Role in the Church

Obligatory Motherhood

Human Rights Concerns

4.8.1 Unchanging Faith

4.8.2 Eschatology

4.9 The Problem of Evil

4.9.1 An Ancient Dilemma

4.9.2 Soteriology

4.9.3 Predestination

The Calvinist View

Flirting with Free Will

4.9.4 Human Suffering

4.10 Taking Responsibility

4.10.1 Child Sexual Abuse

The Whistleblower

Out in the Open

Doctrinal Issues

4.10.2 Rethinking the 1970s

5 Martin Luther

5.1 Predecessors

5.1.1 Luther’s View

Absent Absolution

What They Said (and Didn’t Say)

Duplicating the Keys

Hiddenness Again

5.3 Zwingli and the Real Presence

5.4 Conversion and The Forgiveness of Sins

5.4.1 Voice of Zion Article

5.4.2 Historical Context

5.4.3 Shared Doctrine and Significance

5.4.4 Thorns in the Rose Bed

5.4.5 Lay Absolution

5.4.6 Luther’s Conversion

6 The Old Testament

6.5 Deuteronomy

6.8 First Samuel

6.9 Second Samuel

6.10 First Kings

6.11 Second Kings

6.12 First Chronicles

6.13 Second Chronicles

6.20 Ecclesiastes

6.23 Lamentations

7 The New Testament

7.1 The Gospels

7.4 First Epistle to the Corinthians

7.8 First Epistle of John

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