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2014-12-13T18:22:53-06:00

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Joseph Spencer on The Responsibility of Reason

Last updated on: December 13, 2014 at 6:22 pm By rhancock

Here is editor John Welch’s able summary of Joe Spencer’s serious and thoughtful review essay on my The Responsibility of Reason (Rowman & Littlefield 2011). Joe’s review just appeared in BYU Studies. Joseph Spencer’s essay about Professor Ralph Hancock’s important book, The Responsibility of Reason, also opens up further possibilities. As Spencer summarizes, Hancock argues that it is necessary to recog- nize that the world of concrete practices bears within itself a set of orga- nizing forms that are governed by “the good,”... Read more

2014-12-09T14:53:16-06:00

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The Secular Storm: Nothing to Fear? (4)

Last updated on: December 9, 2014 at 2:53 pm By rhancock

[continued from here] As Matthew Wickman, Director of the BYU Humanities Center, pointed out, the great Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is an in important source for a complex view of secularism that might assuage the fears of simpler folk like me. Now, it turns out that, in one of my rare breaks from going through Mormon Doctrine alphabetically and pondering the authoritative quotations mustered in The 5000-Year Leap, I actually read some books by Charles Taylor. What’s more, I actually... Read more

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2014-12-07T13:48:37-06:00

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BYU Prof FEARS SECULARISM (3): What, me Worry?

Last updated on: December 7, 2014 at 1:48 pm By rhancock

As I was saying: The Salt Lake Tribune has presented me as a critic of “secularism.” Fair enough – I am happy to criticize something we can call secularism. Adam Miller finds my program, as stated in Tribune, too simple. Hancock poses a false choice, Miller says, between a faithful and a “secular” view. Sure, he concedes, the academy’s view is secular, but that’s OK, because we can learn from secularism. Anyway, the issues are not simple (as the Tribune’s... Read more

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2014-12-06T13:21:11-06:00

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The Kindle of a Conservative: Marginal Fragments of a Correlated Worldview (2) – Steven D. Smith and the Problem of Religious Freedom

Last updated on: December 6, 2014 at 1:21 pm By rhancock

I’m probably going to need to shorten that title in future installments… As I mentioned before, every month or so I try to break with my lifelong habit as an old white male might-as-well-have-grown-up-in-Orem Mormon of reading only the assigned, duly correlated Manuals — and, of course, Mormon Doctrine and The 5000-Year Leap — in order to experience the transgressive rush of dipping my toe in the pool of “secular” scholarship. Kindle affords me the ability easily to cut... Read more

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2014-12-04T16:43:25-06:00

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BYU Prof FEARS SECULARISM (2): Why I am so Simple

Last updated on: December 4, 2014 at 4:43 pm By rhancock

Before proceeding to a deft and devastating disarming of my critics, let me repeat my thanks to Peggy Fletcher Stack for her respectful attention to the Meridian/Expand project and more generally to my concerns about LDS scholars and intellectuals, at BYU and elsewhere. When I noted that she was presenting my concerns from a standpoint different from my own, I was not accusing her of some specific bias, but only noting that she is unlikely to present my ideas in... Read more

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2014-11-30T23:27:00-06:00

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“BYU prof FEARS SECULARISM”

Last updated on: November 30, 2014 at 11:27 pm By rhancock

I appreciate Peggy Fletcher Stack’s and the Salt Lake Tribune’s interest in our new initiative at Meridian Magazine, a page labeled “Expand” (as in Alma 32: “your mind doth begin to expand…”) and in the thinking that led me to take this initiative. We certainly welcome the publicity for this important and still fledgling venture. Peggy does us at Expand and her readers the service of quoting and paraphrasing parts of my argument for undertaking this new online publication. Moreover,... Read more

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2014-11-30T22:21:30-06:00

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Ralph on Rome (the Ancient one)

Last updated on: November 30, 2014 at 10:21 pm By rhancock

Here’s my latest little piece on the significance of Rome for Western transcendence. Read more

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2014-11-29T08:44:41-06:00

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The Kindle of a Conservative: Marginal Fragments of a Correlated Worldview (1)

Last updated on: November 29, 2014 at 8:44 am By rhancock

I, Ralph C. Hancock, Having occasionally undertaken to criticize the critics of ordinary, mainstream views of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, views most readily accessible in the more or less authoritative statements of the Authorities these ordinary members sustain, And thus having inevitably been cast by those comfortably critical critics as a fearful, strident, and narrow-minded defender of a bland, dogmatic and predictable orthodoxy, such as one would expect from an old white male teaching... Read more

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2014-11-18T17:22:04-06:00

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Rome Report: Pres. Eyring and Prof. Wardle Praise Complementarity

Last updated on: November 18, 2014 at 5:22 pm By rhancock

I was pleased to receive this email dispatch from Rome from my friend Lynn Wardle, a professor at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School: The Colloquium on Gender Complementarity in Marriage has been a terrific event. The Vatican has been very positive and supportive. A lot of very knowledgeable and experienced persons are participating. I think it was said that the 350 participants come from 17 religions and 23 countries (or 23 religions and 17 countries). Global support for marriage... Read more

2014-11-11T18:48:21-06:00

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BYU, the Family, and the Gospel of Self-Indulgence. Prof. Sven Wilson on Family Capital

Last updated on: November 11, 2014 at 6:48 pm By rhancock

My colleague and now Department Chair, Sven Wilson, recently (10/23) delivered the annual Virginia F. Cutler Lecture at BYU, hosted by BYU’s School of Family Life. The auditorium was full (200+), and those who attended were well rewarded by a thoughtful, well-researched and in many ways brave lecture on “Love, Marriage and the Public Health.” After setting forth (for us non-economists) some basic principles concerning human capital and economic growth, Wilson proposed looking at the household as the key producer... Read more

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