Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants: Seeing
In this introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants, Media Studies scholar Mason Kamana Allred focuses our vision on practices and principles of seeing. He looks at how looking itself is a unique devotional mode in Latter-day Saint belief. His reading of the Doctrine and Covenants collects theological statements about and experiences of spiritual vision and emphasizes how they are often activated through natural vision and earthly commitment in ways that illuminate how to navigate our modern circumstances.
By looking for truth with our whole bodies, we can be better equipped to develop spiritually in our media saturated world. As the early Church members did then, we can today avoid deception and gain revelation. Enhancing our vision through learning to not only look at but truly see nature, others, our covenants, and even the Lord, we can get our eye single to the glory of God and see things as they really are.
