Mormonism, Grace and Works

The other day there was a rather longish set of comments in response to a post about misunderstandings of grace in Mormonism. As I tried to make clear I’m anything but an expert in Protestantism. In the comments though one of the interlocutors, Darrell, seemed to attack the Mormon concept of grace precisely because it [...]

Beck, Mormonism and Evangelicalism

I don’t listen to Glen Beck. Talk radio isn’t my thing. (Too much inflammatory hyperbole and strawmen) However an Evangelical blog, Heart Issues, had up an interesting post suggesting Beck speaks more like an Evangelical than a Mormon. They link to what I’d consider an anti-Mormon site which had what seemed an odd article. The [...]

Mormon Divorce

Interesting page at Religious Tolerance someone posted at LDS-Herm. It’s about the Mormon divorce rate. I suspect most have heard the oft quoted 6% divorce rate for temple marriages among Mormons. The page notes a problem with this statistic. Most Mormons who have their marriage sealed in a temple ceremony and who subsequently divorce do [...]

Pluralism and Religious Epistemology

This post was prompted by a very interesting blog post over at the Huffington Post. (Not the normal place for this sort of discussion) They brought up the following oft noted issue in epistemology. You can have a collection of beliefs, each one you believe and yet also believe that at least some of the [...]

Russell Fox on Mormons and Wealth

Russell Fox, one of my favorite bloggers, is perhaps better known in general blogging circles than within Mormon blogs. He’s blogged regularly over at his private blog In Medias Res as at various popular political group blogs. Russell had up a fantastic post “Can a Good Mormon Make Over $100,000 a Year?” Now Russell is [...]

Slate and the Book of Mormon as Literature

Lots of discussion at LDS-Herm on Alan Wolfe’s review of The Book of Mormon as literature at Slate. Wolfe acknowledges it is much more complex than most think but has a hard time seeing it as great literature. I actually agree, although I’m not sure why we ought expect it (or any ancient text) to [...]

The Narrative of Suffering

The Buddhist reading group on LDS-Herm has been going great. One of the more interesting tangental discussions was on the place of suffering in LDS thought. It seems that suffering plays a great role in the narrative development of LDS self-identity. That is the suffering in Missouri during the Mormon wars there, the stories of [...]

Join LDS-Herm

I’d mentioned in the what are you reading thread about joining LDS-Herm. I noticed there weren’t very good instructions on how to join. To join go to LDS-Herm at Google Groups You’ll have to create a Google Groups account, but there’s not much to it. Especially if you already have a Gmail account.

Quick Thoughts on the SMPT Conference

I unfortunately could only make it for today. (I was at the doors twice yesterday, only to be called away) However it was a great conference and quite nice to meet folks like Adam Miller face to face finally. Adam said he thought this was one of the best conferences SMPT had had. While podcasts [...]

Nominalism, Pratt & McConkie

I’m bringing a discussion here that got a bit afield from the discussion over at BCC recently. It one of those narrow topics that not everyone will enjoy. I figured I’d bring it here to not distract from Daymon’s post at BCC. The issue is Bruce R. McConkie, Orson Pratt and nominalism. Now I should [...]

SMPT Reminder

Just a reminder about this week’s SMPT Conference. I’ll be there for at least a few of the sessions. The theme of the conference is on theological anthropology. It takes place the 25th – 27th. I probably can’t go to much on Thursday but am very interested in several of the topics for Friday.

Compassion Theory of the Atonement

I’ve not done many religious oriented posts of late. I wanted to return to Blake Ostler’s compassion theory of the atonement which he discusses in volume 2 of his Exploring Mormon Thought series: The Problem of Theism and the Love of God. This was by far my favorite volume in the series, although there is [...]

Evolution and Theology

Yes, I’m really behind on blog posts here. Sorry, I’ve been quite busy. Larval Subjects had an interesting post on theology and evolution. It’s primarily brief comments on Nagel, Fodor and Plantinga responding to Darwinism. However Levi raises a good critique I’ve heard both from more fundamentalist critics of evolution as well as atheists criticizing [...]

Mormonism, Externalism and OOO

I’d brought up at LDS-Herm my recent comments on Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. While this is one of those topics where there appears no over LDS connection I did find it interesting that this discussion was so close to topics I’ve been studying off and on for many years. In fact this blog got started [...]

Religious Belief & Reformed Epistemology

One thing that many religious thinkers have appealed to in religious epistemology is the idea of reformed epistemology. This is roughly the idea that you can be justified in a belief without having the conditions of your justification before you. That is you can know without being able to give reasons for your knowledge. Now [...]

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