Mormonism and the Absolute

Just a quick followup to this morning’s post on the Mormon view of God. When some Mormon thinkers critique the tendency fairly early on in Christian theology to attempt to reconcile Greek conceptions of God with pre-Hellenistic Hebrew conceptions they often use the phrase “Absolute.” This is probably a bit of a problematic term. I [...]

Maverick Philosopher on Mormonism & God

I had hoped January would have been a little less busy. Unfortunately it ended up being even more busy than December! Still I’m trying to resuscitate this blog. Writing blog posts is the way I get to think through a lot of issues. Reading alone is insufficient to think, in my view. One way I’m [...]

Better to Be an Adulterer than a Mormon?

A lot of people are discussing Francis Beckwith’s comments at Patheos about how evangelicals are not so subtly saying it is better to be an adulterer than a Mormon. It’s a great post and takes a line of thought I’d never even considered before. A few quotes:  

Pew Mormon Study

The internet has been ablaze today with the latest Pew Forum Survey on Mormonism. BCC has up a discussion of the report and also live blogged the conference call at Pew. As I mentioned in the BCC thread a few things seem really off. They have the rate of self-identification as Mormon at nearly 2% [...]

New Years Resolutions

I’ve got a few New Years resolutions. Normally I hate such things but this year I want to get back into my more academic studies. I’ve been so busy the past years that things have fallen farther and farther behind. My first big resolution is to get caught up on my reading of Object Oriented [...]

Inequity & Mormonism

The recent Harper’s article suggesting Mormons have a mindset of seeking after gold and riches irked a lot of people.  (See for instance this post by Russell Fox) Frankly I don’t think the article deserves much consideration. It’s just poorly researched and sourced with some mind bogglingly dumb connections made. I am intrigued though by [...]

Religion, Autism and Cognitive Style

Razib has a slew of fantastic posts on religion today. Most of it is just going over some studies that have been discussed at quite a few blogs. The first post, “Atheism as Mental Deviance” (he’s using that term technically) deals with the recognition that autistics are more apt to be atheist than normal. Honestly [...]

Beckwith on Mormonism and Natural Law

Francis Beckwith has an article up on Mormonism and Natural Law. Take a look at it. It’s interesting in that he’s trying to defend Mormonism against certain charges – especially in the political arena where Romney is assumed to be the de facto nominee. (Although it may be a little early to say that – [...]

Evolutionist Cartoon

There’s been an interesting graph making the rounds of Twitter and various blogs today. You’ve probably seen it. It’s from the web comic Calamities of Nature. It’s just a graph of belief in evolution versus per capita gross domestic product. It then has a fit for the data using an equation of the form y [...]

Heidegger, Theology and Materialism

Saw this over at Enowning.  Seems relevant here since Mormonism is such a religion about materialism. John D. Caputo on Martin Hägglund‘s Radical Atheism, from The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 11.2.

American Christian (dis)Belief in the Resurrection

Interesting discussion where someone mentioned that most Christians don’t accept a bodily resurrection. I looked all over trying to find the poll and I think it was this one from Scripps Survey Research Center in 2006. The figures, if accurate, are pretty shocking.   Some 1,007 adults were interviewed by phone from Feb. 19 to [...]

Why Doctrine?

Bill Vallicella has had for years one of my favorite blogs. Even when I don’t agree with him I’ve always loved watching him think through issues publicly on his blog. While this blog is little like his, in some ways his blog has been quite influential on how I approach blogging. Thus it’s unsurprising that [...]

What I’m Reading

I’m slowly getting back into my academic mindset. I still don’t have quite the disposable time I once did. But it’s nice to exercise my mind a bit more in different ways than just business and maintaining home and family. It’s one of those things I miss. Now if I can just get my exercise [...]

Ancient Sealed Metal Hebrew Plates Found

Ancient sealed metal plates written in coded Hebrew have been found. Some are suggesting this could be as big a find as the Dead Sea Scrolls. They date from the first century CE and may be among the oldest Christian documents yet found. Obviously the significant of sealed metal plates written in coded Hebrew is [...]

American Grace

I was running a lot of errands the other day and was able to list to most of Radio West’s show on American Grace.  It really was quite interesting. I noticed today that Razib over at Secular Right listed the book on his reading list on religion. I’m so far behind in my reading as is [...]

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