129. The Early Christian World — A Conversation with Laura Nasralla
Faith Matters
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The Place of Spiritual Gifts in Late Saint Studies
In the latter day saint tradition that joseph smith was immersed in a world of folk magic. You're doing something similar when you try to excavate the world behind corinthians and e paul's enumeration of different kinds of spiritual gifts and spiritual practices. And it sounds like you've uncovered a variety of other kinds practicl yo referred, for example, to amulets and an other, i guess, to day we call folk magic. In antiquities people were using what they understood to be scientific mechanisms? Or scientistic we could say, cosmological roots at the skies, alchemical roots,. They were using all these different methods to try to understand how
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