Foreordination
The premortal calling and appointment of spirits to mortal missions, preserving moral agency.
39 documents · 9 libraries · 1972–2025
Gospel Topics overview
Emphasis over time
Peak: 4 documents in 1974
Documents tagged with this topic each year. Libraries cover different years (Liahona starts in 2021), so the rate compares eras more fairly than the count.
Where it lives
- General Conference15 documents
- BYU Speeches12 documents
- Interpreter3 documents
- BYU Studies2 documents
- Liahona Articles2 documents
- Scripture Central2 documents
- Gospel Topics and Questions1 document
- Journal of Book of Mormon Studies1 document
- Religious Educator1 document
Latest
Scripture Central
Why Do Latter-day Saints Believe in a Premortal Existence? (opens in a new tab)
Aug 2025
General Conference
Foreordained to Serve (opens in a new tab)
Steven R. Bangerter · Apr 2024
Liahona Articles
What Is the Relationship between Foreordination and Agency? (opens in a new tab)
Oct 2023
Liahona Articles
God Knew Me Before I Was Born (opens in a new tab)
Oct 2022
BYU Studies
The Foreordination of Abraham (opens in a new tab)
Stephen O. Smoot , John Gee , Kerry Muhlestein , and John S. Thompson · 2022
Religious Educator
Stephen O. Smoot · 2021
Interpreter
Formed in and Called from the Womb (opens in a new tab)
Dana M. Pike · 2020
Scripture Central
How a Tangent About Foreordination Helps Explain Repentance (opens in a new tab)
Scripture Central · Jul 2018
Interpreter
A. Keith Thompson · 2016
Interpreter
A Note on Chiasmus in Abraham 3:22-23 (opens in a new tab)
Julie M. Smith · 2014
Earliest
General Conference
“We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet” (opens in a new tab)
Spencer W. Kimball · Oct 1972
Most frequent voices
- David B. Haight2 documents
- M. Russell Ballard2 documents
- Neal A. Maxwell2 documents
- Russell M. Nelson2 documents
- Theodore M. Burton2 documents
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