ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the core dynamics of salvation in Mormonism expressed in ritual, belief and ethical practice, and examines how they change under various constraints. Salvation is a complex phenomenon attracting the religious imagination and empowering religious experience across the religions of the world. The emergence of what may be identified as the moral space of temples served as a constant reminder to Mormons of the activity and endeavour lying at the heart of salvation, a reminder that bonded the temple to family life. The Mormon Church praises knowledge and the path of learning but at the same time retains the right to assert and affirm key truths from the central leadership positions. Wisdom, in effect, comes to be a personal disposition to grasp as true that which the Church teaches as true. Mormonism has come to develop, albeit implicitly, a theological aesthetic of music that differs significantly from that of most mainline Christian churches.
