{"id":44578,"date":"2017-10-14T10:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=44578"},"modified":"2017-10-14T10:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:23:31","slug":"chloroform-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/10\/chloroform-in-print.html","title":{"rendered":"“Chloroform in Print”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The new Indianapolis Indiana Temple \u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The British educator and literary scholar Arthur Henry King<\/a> was an adult convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. \u00a0Here is his candid report of his initial response to the Book of Mormon:<\/p>\n

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It took me a long time to appreciate the Book of Mormon. When I started to read it, I thought it was an awful bore. Then I gradually found (it took me about two years) that I was wrong. I think my mind was closed to it in the beginning because it was so like the Bible and yet so unlike it. . . .<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I really was converted to the Book of Mormon until I began to teach it here at BYU. Having to teach it made me make the effort to see what it rhetorically was. I was trying to apply the principles of my judgment of English literature and poetry. I discovered my judgment was wrong. The tradition of the language was different. What I was looking at as clich\u00e9s weren\u2019t clich\u00e9s at all. It is important to learn things like the fact that Archibald Macleish cannot be judged in the same way as Yeats. They come from different traditions. Their rhetorical patterns are totally different. . . .<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The rhetoric of the Book of Mormon is more developed than the rhetoric of the Hebrew scriptures. Look at Jacob 5, the parable of the olive tree, or 2 Nephi 9, the sermon about the Atonement. When we start working out the rhetorical patterns in those chapters, we have something more complex than anything in the Bible. That is another proof, incidentally, that not even Sidney Rigdon could have written the Book of Mormon. . . .<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Book of Mormon is not in any way inferior to the Bible in its use of literary devices. The Book of Mormon, from the point of view of its style, is effective, full of great writing.[1]<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> King, \u201cAn Account of My Conversion,\u201d 43-44.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ben Spackman gave a really good talk at the annual FairMormon conference last August, and the text of his remarks is now online. \u00a0I commend them to you for your enjoyment and edification:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTruth, Scripture, and Interpretation: Some Precursors to Reading Genesis\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The indefatigable and inimitable Robert Boylan<\/a> has a useful item up on his blog, responding to the fairly common Evangelical anti-Mormon argument that, because they seem to have spoken about the Sun and the Moon being inhabited, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were false prophets:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFun Anti-Mormon \u2018Facts\u2019 Refuted: Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and \u2018Moonie Men'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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William J. Hamblin and the execrable Daniel C. Peterson have a new article in the Deseret News<\/em> this morning, full to overflowing with Peterson\u2019s trademark hateful ad hominem<\/em> bigotry against non-Mormons:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe third man of the Reformation\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Just a reminder that the loathsome Peterson will be taking his venomous show on the road later this week, to Indiana. \u00a0His visit there will include a public event a week from tomorrow: \u00a0He\u2019ll be giving a Sunday night fireside in a stake center that, unless I\u2019m much mistaken, sits very near the new Indianapolis Indiana Temple \u2014 which is actually located in the suburban area of Carmel:<\/p>\n

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A week from Sunday, in the greater Indianapolis area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you\u2019re in the vicinity, you\u2019re certainly welcome. \u00a0Just fortify yourself in advance with a tranquilizer or two and bring some smelling salts. \u00a0If some of my online critics are right, it will be ninety minutes of rage and invective.<\/p>\n

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Posted from St. George, Utah<\/p>\n

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