ABSTRACT
Glory’s wide Christian reference emerges from Hebrew notions ranging from a sense of ‘weight’ and ‘difficulty’ to ideas of persons of ‘substance, wealth, dignity, noble bearing and honour’. The visible aspect of such attributes is notable, whether in the cloud covering the tent of god’s presence, in ‘devouring fire’, or in Ezekiel’s element of ‘brightness’ allied with tangible weight of divine presence. Brunner’s consideration of glory shows a protestant approach that accepts the ‘glorification’ of Christians as a necessary correlate of the ‘glory’ evident in the process of divine revelation to people. In terms of LDS theological interests, glory includes the possibilities that obedience generates in response to the Restoration of truth and its ordinances. The distinction stresses the importance of way groups classify their world and order the dynamics of its religious energy, it also highlights the way the same words, such as ‘glory’ or ‘faith’, can easily give the impression of unanimity of perspective where, actually, differences exist.
