chapter i – The Science of Theology

Doctrinal Expositions

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…

Doctrinal Expositions

Are You Afflicted By Psychic Pride?

20 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The great obstacle to developing one's spiritual senses is that of one's psychic pride. Pride in the pejorative sense is typically defined as excessive self-esteem or a dangerous overabundance of…

Doctrinal Expositions

Classic Truth: The Light of Christ

14 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The following address was delivered by Marion G. Romney in the April 1977 session of General Conference: My brethren, I pray, and ask you to join in that prayer, that…

Doctrinal Expositions

By the Light of Truth

13 Apr 20185 Nov 2019

The Spirit is Willing, but the Flesh is Weak It has been said that we are not human bodies that have spiritual experiences, but spirits that are experiencing human bodies.…

Doctrinal Expositions

Not My Will, But Thine: The Calling and Election

5 Nov 20175 Nov 2019

“There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this   world, upon which all blessings are predicated—and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is…

Poetry

The Living Christ: A Poem

1 May 201713 Dec 2019

His life surpassed all—His atoned; By Sacrifice our souls are owned; Mid mortals—as He too was tried— None other’s strength mankind shall bide. Moses wrote of Godly power; John beheld…

Replies to Thomas

How Faith Can Soar to Knowledge

14 May 20155 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, It's been a while since I've written; you've given quite a lot of information to digest in your letters to me and there's just been a lot going…

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The Devil Told the Truth

16 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, "...The original Hebrew word for ‘created,’ as found in [Genesis 1:1], does not actually mean 'to make' as we often assume it does. It means 'to organize.'" Very interesting,…

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Five-hundred Miles Per Hour at Thirty-thousand Feet

11 Sep 20145 Nov 2019

Dear Joseph, I want to return to the subject of information missing from scripture. Even including The Book of Mormon, there's still a big chunk of really important stuff missing, confused,…

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.