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Redeemer

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Moments of emphasis shift

Years when this word’s usage moved sharply against the decade around it.

  • 1872
    ▲  Sharper emphasis62 per million words
  • 1882
    ▲  Sharper emphasis160 per million words
  • 1911
    ▲  Sharper emphasis284 per million words
  • 1918
    ▲  Sharper emphasis2397 per million words
  • 1982
    ▲  Sharper emphasis237 per million words
  • 2000
    ▲  Sharper emphasis320 per million words
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The Spoken Word

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

  1. 1919·Joseph F. Smith·Prophet
    VISION OF THE REDEMPTION OF THE DEAD. On the third of October, in the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, I sat in my room pondering over the Scriptures and reflecting upon the great atoning sacrifice that was made by the Son of God for the redemption of the world, and the great and wonderful love made manifest by the Father and the Son in the coming of the Redeemer into the world, that through his Atonement and by obedience to the principles of the gospel, mankind might be saved.
    Gospel Doctrine — apostle_book
  2. 1971·Joseph Fielding Smith·Prophet
    “Great is his wisdom, marvelous are his ways, and the extent of his doings none can find out.” ([D&C 76:1–2](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1971/10/i-know-that-my-redeemer-liveth?lang=eng/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76?lang=eng&id=p1-p2#p1).)
    “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” — cojc
  3. 1977·Spencer W. Kimball·Prophet
    “Assuredly as the Lord liveth, who is your God and your Redeemer, even so surely shall you receive a knowledge of whatsoever things you shall ask in faith, with an honest heart, believing that you shall receive. …
    Revelation: The Word of the Lord to His Prophets — cojc
  4. 1988·Boyd K. Packer·Apostle
    This we know! This simple truth! Had there been no Creation, no Fall, there should have been no need for any Atonement, neither a Redeemer to mediate for us. Then Christ need not have been.
    Atonement, Agency, Accountability — cojc
  5. 1996·David B. Haight·Apostle
    On the next day, a day like this, my name was read to be sustained and I was asked to come up and take one of these red chairs. I did so in all amazement. And then the Tabernacle Choir sang “O Divine Redeemer.” I thought my heart would break in the pleading of those words: “Remember not, remember not, O Lord, my sins.”
    This Work Is True — cojc
  6. 1998·Gordon B. Hinckley·Prophet
    I leave with you my testimony of the divinity of this work and my love for each of you, in the name of the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
    To the Boys and to the Men — cojc

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