Book of Mormon scholars have used multiple interpretive lenses to interpret the tree of life vision, which were popular in different eras of Book of Mormon scholarship.
Historical interpretations were popular from the mid 1940s up through the 1980s. In his summary of tree of life visions in Approaching the Tree,
Givens identifies themes in the vision that make up the core of Mormon theology: "personal revelation, Christ, varieties of Zion, new configurations of scripture, and the centrality of family." [1]
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Historical interpretations were popular from the mid 1940s up through the 1980s. In his summary of tree of life visions in Approaching the Tree,
Givens identifies themes in the vision that make up the core of Mormon theology: "personal revelation, Christ, varieties of Zion, new configurations of scripture, and the centrality of family." [1]
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