Blake T. Ostler retracts his claims from his 1987 Dialogue article that Alma 34 and 42 reflects the atonement theology of Anselm.
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Blake T. Ostler, Exploring Mormon Thought, 4 vols. (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2006), 2: 232-33n.14
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- Greg Kofford Books
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Such a view of Alma and Amulek’s statements is found in Boyd K. Packer, The Mediator (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1978), and “The Mediator,” Ensign, May 1977, 54-56. For a more formal treatment, see Ronald A. Heiner, “The Necessity of a Sinless Messiah,” BYU Studies 22, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 5-30. I also badly misinterpreted these passages in Alma when I compared them to Anselm’s satisfaction theory of atonement in “The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of An Ancient Text,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 66-123.
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