The body is not a prison

Published: Monday, July 6, 2009 12:52 p.m. MDT
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The body is depraved. It is the center of sin. It is a prison.

At least that is how the body was viewed by some philosophers and Protestants, according to Benjamin Park, a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, who spoke at the Mormon Scholars Foundation Summer Seminar on July 2 at BYU.

Park said Parley Pratt helped articulate the Mormons' "radically optimistic" view of the body. This view developed as doctrines were revealed by Joseph Smith and then explained by Pratt.

Read the full story on MormonTimes.com.

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