The Intellectual in the Service of the Faith?: The Pursuit of Understanding
April 18, 2018A useful beginning for my comments may be found in a quotation from Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
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An Echo from the Foothills: To Marshal the Forces of Reason
April 17, 2018[…] redress? Do I contribute to unfortunate tensions with others in the family of Judeo-Christian religions and other world religions by not expressing my own very positive view of ecumenical cooperation? Do we all passively […]
The Code Revealed | Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
April 17, 2018[…] treated to an analysis of how the Bible serves as the repository of much of the Western world’s cultural mythology. Frye himself describes The Great Code as neither a work of biblical scholarship nor […]
Determining and Defining “Wife”: The Brigham Young Households
April 17, 2018[…] other suggestions on how to survive as a gentile in Utah, offered this tip: “Ask guides at the Beehive House how many wives Brigham Young had. (Of my last four tours, the answer has […]
If I Were God
April 15, 2018[…] if I were God? If I were God I would, as many claim he did, create the world and then give us a few billion years to work out our own salvation, possibly with […]
“A Song for One Still Voice”: Hymn of Affirmation
April 15, 2018[…] provokes a mental observation on experiences that have taught him “his first terror of the simple elemental world.” He remembers the difficulty of thawing a frozen water line and thinks of his grandparents “lasting […]
Drowning in Excess | Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Book of Mormon Critical Text: A Tool for Scholarly Reference
April 15, 2018[…] ways. Serving no purpose that I could discern, some biblical and extra-biblical parallels were presented all in English except for one word in Hebrew, Greek, or occasionally Egyptian or Syriac transliteration. This transliterated word […]
Pertinent to Our Enterprise | Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher
April 14, 2018[…] reasons are several and compelling. In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.
Mormon Splinter Groups | Hans A. Baer, Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Modern Mormonism
April 14, 2018[…] shows how the top-heavy hierarchy within the tiny order places marginal people on top in their own world. And he also shows how Glendenning’s insecure environment led him to see his dreams and fantasies […]
Empathy
April 14, 2018[…] and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world” (3 Ne. 1:13). In a subconscious way I had taken this touching passage as scriptural support […]