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2023-07-19T14:41:35-06:00

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A small tempest about a small temple in Cody

Last updated on: July 19, 2023 at 2:41 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Two new items went up on the website of the Interpreter Foundation today: Come, Follow Me — New Testament Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 31, July 24 — 30: Acts 16–21 — “The Lord Had Called Us for to Preach the Gospel” Once again, Jonn Claybaugh provides a concise but helpful set of notes for students and teachers of the Church’s “Come, Follow Me” curriculum. The New Testament in Context Lesson 31: “The Lord Had Called Us for to... Read more

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2023-07-23T21:41:29-06:00

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“Although the seal is hidden, the wax stamped by the seal (hidden though it is) yields clear knowledge of it”

Last updated on: July 23, 2023 at 9:41 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    I posted here a few days ago about Dante and the salvation of the unevangelized. (see “Catholic theology made no such provision”), based upon a reading of Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.. Here is another passage from Dr. Shaw’s superb book that is relevant to the topic: When Dante makes his confession of faith to Saint Peter in the Paradiso, he offers a grammatical gloss on the mathematical conundrum of three-yet-one: e credo in tre persone... Read more

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2023-07-16T23:54:53-06:00

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“Esoteric Teachings and the Problem of Early Latter-day Saint Doctrinal History”

Last updated on: July 16, 2023 at 11:54 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Yesterday, I read Barry R. Bickmore, ““Show Them unto No Man”: Part 1. Esoteric Teachings and the Problem of Early Latter-day Saint Doctrinal History,” in BYU Studies 62/1 (2023): 29-60. Dr. Bickmore holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech (more formally, from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University).  He is a professor of geological sciences at Brigham Young University, where he specializes in mineralogy, petrology, hydrogeology, environmental geology, and geochemistry. He has, however, also had a longstanding and... Read more

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2023-07-15T19:09:30-06:00

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It really does, optimally, take two

Last updated on: July 15, 2023 at 7:09 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Jenet Jacob Erickson , who earned her doctorate in family social science from the University of Minnesota, is an associate professor in religious education at Brigham Young University, where she teaches the Eternal Family (Rel 200) course and the Introduction to Family Process (SFL 160) course for the School of Family Life. She is a research fellow of both the Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies and has been a columnist on family issues for the... Read more

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2023-07-14T22:38:18-06:00

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Responding to a terrestrial paradise

Last updated on: July 14, 2023 at 10:38 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Two new review-essays appeared today in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship.  They are: “A Truly Remarkable Book,” written by Louis C. Midgley Review of John Gee, Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, And Encourage Faith (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2020). 313 pages. Abstract: Saving Faith is a truly excellent book, designed especially for families concerned about their children. It is also a book appropriate for those getting ready to serve as missionaries, or for... Read more

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2023-07-13T20:32:57-06:00

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“Almost beyond question”

Last updated on: July 13, 2023 at 8:32 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    I want to share with you a couple of passages from Brian Miller, “Does Cosmology Support Cosmic Design?” in Ann Gauger, ed., God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2023), 34-46.  Brian Miller, who earned a B.S. in physics with a minor in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University, is currently the research coordinator for the Center for Science and Culture at the... Read more

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2023-07-12T22:25:50-06:00

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Cambodian Temples and the Resurrection of Jesus

Last updated on: July 12, 2023 at 10:25 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Conference Talks: “All Abraham’s Children: A Genetic Perspective” is the name of a presentation that was given by Dr. Ugo A. Perego on Saturday, 12 March 2016, as part of 2016’s Second Interpreter Science & Mormonism Symposium: “Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit.” Dr. Perego’s presentation is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at no cost.     Apart from spending time in the swimming pool with a portion of our posterity, our most significant effort of the... Read more

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2023-07-12T21:33:29-06:00

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When the counter-explanations seem, well, rather lame

Last updated on: July 12, 2023 at 9:33 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    We spent much of today in quest of humpback whales.  And pretty successfully, too.  It’s difficult (for non-specialists, anyway) to distinguish individual whales, but we saw at least half a dozen of them off in the distance, and at least four (including at least one mother and a calf) up very close to our boat.  And we saw maybe two dozen Steller sea lions.  Beautiful, clear, crisp weather and a calm sea.  There are worse ways of spending... Read more

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2023-07-10T23:03:18-06:00

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Nothing new under the sun?

Last updated on: July 10, 2023 at 11:03 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    Surprise!  Something has just been posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:  Interpreter Radio Show — July 9, 2023 In the 9 July 2023 episode of the Interpreter Radio Show, Martin Tanner, John Gee, and Kevin Christensen discussed Come, Follow Me New Testament lesson 32, Jeremy Runnells and John Dehlin‘s claim that “second sight” means “imagination,” and the article this week by John Gee. They were then joined by historian Ron Esplin to discuss his new Brigham... Read more

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2023-07-09T23:38:11-06:00

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“Catholic theology made no such provision”

Last updated on: July 9, 2023 at 11:38 pm   By Dan Peterson

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    As I mentioned the other day, my wife and I recently read Prue Shaw’s Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.  Dr. Shaw studied at the University of Sydney, where she gained First Class degrees in English and in Italian, and later earned degrees at the the Universities of Oxford (B. Phil in General and Comparative Literature) and Florence (Dott. In Lett.). She taught Italian Language and Literature at the University of Cambridge, the University of London, and University... Read more

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