Monthly Archives: November 2007

The Immaculate Reception… BYU Style

Posted on November 29, 2007 by smallaxe

Leave it to a BYU student to invoke the name of the Lord in BYU’s win last weekend over the U. Austin Collie, who caught a 49-yard pass on 4th and 18 to keep the drive alive (which eventually put BYU … Continue reading →

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Notes from hither and yon

Posted on November 26, 2007 by nitsav

AHLDuke summarizes the SBL conference on his blog. I hear it was a good time. Across town from SBL, JP Moreland at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting accuses Evangelicals of bibliolatry, in his address entitled “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to … Continue reading →

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LDS Zeal for Law

Posted on November 25, 2007 by lxxluthor

While some of my fellow bloggers here at FPR conclude their probably ecstatic SBL experience, I thought I’d make a post about a topic that I’ve been musing on for the past while. A realization that I’ve had recently is … Continue reading →

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The DeMcConkie-izing of the Church

Posted on November 9, 2007 by nitsav

Elder McConkie, I think, made large contributions to the Church. He systematized and provided the only real encyclopedic Gospel reference book in a time when computers filled rooms.  I think he provided some things the Church needed at a particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Doctrine, Leadership | 42 Comments

My Margaret Barker Experience

Posted on November 9, 2007 by TT

I first heard about Margaret Barker seven years ago and have watched from the sidelines as LDS scholars have fallen all over themselves after her ideas. However, I have never read her work. My avoidance of her work changed when … Continue reading →

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Which Rule is More Golden?

Posted on November 8, 2007 by smallaxe

1) Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 2) Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you. Or are they both more or less the same?

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Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, and Various Near Eastern Texts

Posted on November 6, 2007 by nitsav

Two quick notes: Non-LDS scholar Peter Flint gave a lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls the other day at BYU. You can watch it or listen to the audio at Aquinas’ blog. (Hat tip to, uh, Aquinas.) And Logos is … Continue reading →

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Wilford Woodruff Conference at Yale

Posted on November 1, 2007 by TT

This upcoming conference at Yale is the same weekend as the conference on Mormonism and Politics at Princeton. It looks like there are going to be some interesting papers, but it is unclear exactly if any of them are going … Continue reading →

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