Consecration and Stewardship Revelations

In addition to D&C 42, the core revelation for the Law of Consecration and Stewardship,  there are other revelations relevant to stewardship and consecration.

• D&C 48 [received at Kirtland, Ohio, March 10, 1831] discusses the process of land procurement for the Saints, both around Kirtland and in the (yet undisclosed) Zion.
• D&C 51 [received at Thompson, Ohio, May 20, 1831] discusses the process by which Bishop Partridge is supposed to accommodate the newly arriving Eastern Saints.
• The organization by the Divine Laws is not optional, but necessary (vv.1f)
• Partridge is to appoint the "portions, every man equal according to his family, according to his circumstances and his wants and needs" (v.3).
• Partridge fills out a certificate for each portion, that designates that assigned as the man's inheritance, which he will lose if he "transgresses and is not accounted worthy by the voice of the church" (v.4).
• Consecrated stuff belongs to the work of the church, even if someone leaves; only their deed stays with them (v.5).
• All this shall happen without violating the laws of the land (v.6).

to be continued

More on Danto

We need to discuss the fact that the interpretation of processes must be over rational and over purposeful.

This is actually discussed to an interesting extent in Von Mises Human Action. But it does not bring out the relevancy of the internal consistency of the reconstruction process correctly in my opinion.

clarifying temporal and conceptual model relationships

Even if one exempts la durée médiane for a moment, there is a relationship that exists between la longue durée and structural history on the one hand, and la histoire événementielle and event history on the other. Thus, there is a parallelism of temporal duration and its description.

The appropriate way to handle the shorter one is the script instantiation. The appropriate way to handle the other, however, seems to be Golemization, which corresponds to the Weberian ideal type. (This suggests that the process description is what goes with la durée médiane, though that observation fairly screams for a differentiation between scripts and processes.

However, the ideal type pushes the focus from the temporal components to the qualitative relationships of the conceptual model. As the sum of all identified feature types, and some of their quantificational constraints, it is a description of type level potentialities. It is the view taken from the side of the structure, without the temporal constraints of the structure instantiation.

Again, this needs work for clarification.