In trying to clarify the LDS Church’s position on Blacks and the Priesthood, and acknowledge its problematic past exclusion of Blacks from the LDS priesthood, the church throws itself into a swamp of messy and troublesome words.
It makes you wish for a conceptual rail to lead you through the fog. But there is none, although the statement does attempt to distinguish one. The solid, the constant, the firm path seems what the document calls “theology” and pairs with “practice”.
In the statement, “theology”, seems a summary of what Latter-day Saints think is key to their Church, divine guidance and revelation.
