First of all, let’s get yesterday’s final results out of the way: 4 – Joseph F. Smith 36 13 – Chieko Okazaki 8 9 – Gordon B. Hinckley 32 8 – Spencer W. Kimball 10 16 – The Companionship of the Holy Ghost – 29 1 – “As Man is, God once was; As God is, Man may become” 13 12 – Saving Ordinances 33 5 – 3 Kingdoms of Glory 9 2 – The Bible 24 15 – Jesus... Read more
What, you might ask, is the Heliand? As good Saints, you will remember that Nephi “likened scripture” to himself, his people, and his situation. Well, he wasn’t the only one. In the 9th century an unknown Northern European warrior-monk-poet took it upon himself to “liken” the Gospels to his own people and situation: a chieftain society, a defeated people, a nation forcibly Christianized by Charlemagne. The result was the Heliand, a re-imaging of the Jesus story. (more…) Read more
The results from yesterday: 3 – Bruce R. McConkie 22 14 – Orson Scott Card 3 10 – David O. McKay 17 7 – Eliza R. Snow 5 13 – Zionism 12 4 – Heavenly Mother 10 9 – The Word of Wisdom 21 8 – Plural Marriage 1 1 – The Book of Mormon 21 16 – The Young Women’s Values 1 5 – The Lectures on Faith 13 12 – Zeal without Knowledge 9 2 – The Missionary... Read more
There have been a lot of tight battles thusfar in the Tournament. Some upsets that you think, “What was the seeding committee thinking?” and some close battles that make you think that the committee was thinking. Well, more of the same this week. (more…) Read more
I apologize. Things are busier now than I planned for and I need to install a new program to try and get the polls working properly. The game will resume on Monday and the rest of the first round matches will take place next week. Thanks for your participation thusfar. The winners from today are: 2 Brigham Young 25 15 Eugene England 6 11 Hugh Nibley 26 6 Emma Smith 3 3 Physical Divine Beings 21 14 Dispensationalism 8 10... Read more
The winners from yesterday were 1 – Joseph Smith 23 16 – Truman Madsen 2 12 – James Talmage 19 5 – B. H. Roberts 6 2 – Continuing Revelation 20 15 – “Faith without works is Dead” 6 11 – Restoration of the Priesthood 21 6 – Work for the Dead 3 3 – The Doctrine and Covenants 24 14 – The Spaulding Manuscript 1 7 – The 1st Official Declaration 25 10 – The 1909 Origin of Man... Read more
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Today’s game features a battle of two LDS academics: Lowell Bennion was the first director of the LDS Institute of Religion at the University of Utah and a professor of Sociology. His biography is reviewed here and here and who is quoted here. A brief biography is given here and here is a collection of works by him. Truman Madsen is an emeritus professor of Philosophy at BYU and was the Richard L. Evans chair of Christian Understanding. He has... Read more
In March, as you know, we will be running a tournament of sorts. I would like to take some time and explain the schedule and the rules: (more…) Read more
So, the KJV isn’t the best translation one could use (see Ronan’s post here). Although it’s very good, the authors of the KJV often took liberties in translation where perhaps they should not (Isa. 26:19, anyone?). I imagine this is OK, given that much of what we know of the ancient languages today may not have been known back in the late 1500s to early 1600s. They did the best they could given what they knew at the time. But... Read more
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