Where to begin
Reading paths
The library is shelved by volume, which is the right way to organise it and the wrong way to start reading it. A path is a route through material that already exists — a handful of lessons, topics, chains and figures in an order, with a sentence saying why each one follows the last.
Start here
Six steps through the shape of the whole thing
The fastest way to get the architecture in your head. One doctrinal topic to frame it, two lessons that carry the weight, a diagram, a chain, and a word study — so that by the end you have used every kind of thing the library contains.
6 steps2 hr 19 min
The hard questions
Where the evidence is genuinely contested
Every item here is a place where the honest answer is complicated. The Church's own Gospel Topics essays are cited throughout, because on these subjects the Church has published better material than most of its critics assume.
7 steps4 hr 22 min
What the Atonement actually does
From the Hebrew of the word to the garden
Start with the word itself, then the mechanism, then the two texts that describe the event — one written seven centuries before it and one in the first person by the person it happened to.
7 steps3 hr 32 min
Toward the temple
Covenant, priesthood, sealing
The doctrine behind the building, in the order it was restored. Nothing here discusses the ceremony; all of it is public doctrine that makes the ceremony legible.
7 steps3 hr 42 min
Reading with the Hebrew and Greek
Where translation cost something
Six words and two structures. By the end you should be able to tell the difference between a word study that illuminates a passage and one that is decorating a conclusion the reader already had.
8 steps1 hr 26 min