Doctrinal Expositions – The Science of Theology

Doctrinal Expositions

The Parable of the Talents

22 Dec 20204 Jan 2021

Forward This essay is being written in response to the appearance of a viewpoint among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints espoused and common to the…

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What did Joseph Smith Look Like?

23 Oct 202025 Oct 2020

When it comes to the image of the Prophet Joseph Smith, hundreds of gifted artists and researches have produced a myriad of images over the past 200 years to help…

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Asherah: Mother in Heaven

29 Apr 20208 Jun 2020

One of the most significant doctrines restored by the Prophet Joseph Smith is a knowledge that deity does not exist on a principle of celibate solitude (let alone incorporeal corporality).…

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There Is No Beauty that We Should Desire Him

24 Apr 202028 Jul 2020

What did Jesus of Nazareth look like? This blog post attempts to answer that question from the eyes and talents of some few who have been blessed with a common…

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Protected: A Fugitive in the Earth

20 Dec 201922 Dec 2019

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The Celestial, not the Terrestrial, Inherit the Earth?

7 Nov 20198 Nov 2019

"Also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial, and bodies telestial; but the glory of the celestial, one; and the terrestrial, another; and the telestial, another."There is one glory of the sun,…

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Classic Truth: Administering the Form Without the Power

5 Nov 20195 Nov 2019

The following is a story from the life of the pioneer saint, Joseph Bates Noble: By request, I shall attempt to refer to some things, of which I have been…

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One of the Plainest Books

25 May 20195 Nov 2019

The Beast of Revelation as an Extraterrestrial Introduction The following is a curated reproduction of an electrifying discourse by Joseph Smith that he gave just a year previous to his…

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Classic Truth: The Revelation of John Vs. Daniel

26 Apr 201927 Oct 2020

Sermon delivered by Joseph Smith the Prophet at the General Conference of the Church at Nauvoo, Ill. on Saturday April 8, 1843: The subject I intend to speak upon this…

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The Tongue of Angels: The Necessity of the Holy Ghost in the Fulness of the Gospel

2 May 20185 Nov 2019

The introduction to the Book of Mormon gives the following interesting detail as to its contents: “The Book of Mormon…is a record of God’s dealings…and contains the fulness of the…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.