Best of the Week 4: Academic LDS

Posted on August 1, 2008
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OK, I sort of went a month without doing this after saying it was going to be a weekly thing. Oops. But here’s me playing catchup. These probably aren’t quite as complete as they could be. But they are the ones that caught my memory.

History

2008 Bushman Seminar Pt 1 and Pt 2 notes by Ben at Juvenile Instructor. Sounds like the focus was more on how religious educators can engage with controversial or difficult issues. Also at Life on Gold Plates some thoughts on the seminar.

BYU Studies has an issue with the extra appendixes not in Turley’s Mountain Meadows Massacre book

Franklin and Emerson’s religious rhetoric and the LDS use of it

Review of On Zion’s Mount at DMI.

Early Mormon hymn singing.

Discussion of apostacy. Quite interesting.

The time of the origin of 19th Century Mormon polygamy. The controversy over when it started.

The development of the Word of Wisdom.

Rebaptism and the Mormon Reformation in the 1850′s

Sociology

Pew Forum Survey and the belief in a personal God. A defense of the Pew Survey.

LDS conversion experiences as grounded in NT conversion experience

Patriotism and the international Church at BCC.

Theology, Theory and Philosophy

Libertarian Free Will and Causal Determinism at New Cool Thang. Also some meandering theological musings

Theology and Memory at DMI.

Should Mormon intellectuals be Kantians? At BCC. Quite interesting discussion of social liberalism.

Is faithful Mormon scholarship self-cannibalizing?

Religion as a category of analysis at Juvenile Instructor.

Modern responses to the problem of evil

Science

Discussion of the book Your Inner Fish at T&S. Quite interesting discussion of evolution.

DNA, the Book of Mormon, and Y Chromosomes

Intelligent Design

There are undoubtedly many more I’ve missed. This is just a few I noted.

Related posts:

  1. Defining Mormon Materialism
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  4. Best of the Week 5: Academic LDS
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3 Responses to “Best of the Week 4: Academic LDS”

Thank you for the links (especially the one!) I enjoy using your recommendations to filter through the many options online.

Whether weekly or monthly or fortnightly or whatever, I find these posts useful.

I do too, if only to have a place to look up old articles.

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