53 episodes

LDS Miscellany through a Berkeley Lens

Face in Hat Aaron Brewster & Eric Jepson

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.4 • 16 Ratings

LDS Miscellany through a Berkeley Lens

    5.8 Grace, works, and foreknowledge

    5.8 Grace, works, and foreknowledge

    Two for one!  Grace vs. works is one of our favorite topics, and the foreknowledge of God is another!  The two articles from BYU Studies we are covering today relate to each other in fascinating ways. Join us as we discuss how we can approach Grace using LDS and Protestant theology, and how the paradoxes of omniscience can be used to discover more about our own relationship with reality, time, and agency.  This was a fun one!
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    Understandings of the Relationship between Grace and Works, by Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/understandings-of-the-relationship-between-grace-and-works/
    On the Foreknowledge of God: Time, Knowledge, Reality, Agency, by Rosalynde F. Welch
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/on-the-foreknowledge-of-god/
    The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/
    (I think this is the one I was referring to! -Aaron)
    After All We Can Do...Grace Works, by Robert L. Millet
    https://deseretbook.com/p/after-all-we-can-do-grace-works-robert-l-millet-902?variant_id=132598-paperback
    Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News, by Stephen E. Robinson
    https://deseretbook.com/p/believing-christ-parable-bicycle-other-good-news-stephen-e-robinson-3355?variant_id=108581-hardcover
    Aaron’s top three talks :)
    The Mediator, by Elder Boyd K. Packer
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator
    The Purifying Power of Gethsemane, by Elder Bruce R. McConkie
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1985/04/the-purifying-power-of-gethsemane
    Beware of Pride, by President Ezra Taft Benson
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride
    Pelagianism
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagianism
    Original Grace, by Adam S. Miller
    https://www.amazon.com/Original-Grace-Adam-S-Miller/dp/1639930248
    Book of Mormon infinite atonement: Alma 34: 9-14
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34?lang=eng&id=p9-p14#p9
    2 Nephi 9:7
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9#p7
    The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt by Parley P. Pratt
    https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44896
    Our episode that includes the Great God by Orson Pratt
    https://faceinhat.podbean.com/e/52-divinization-and-deity/
    Exploring Mormon Thought: Volume 1, The Attributes of God, by Blake T. Ostler
    https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Mormon-Thought-Attributes-God-ebook/dp/B0077YUTJE
    Gospel Topic: God the Father
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/god-the-father
    D&C 130:7, “...past, present, and future… are continually before the Lord.”
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/130?lang=eng&id=p7#p7
    The “eternal now” quote: “the past, the present, and the future were and are, with Him, one eternal ‘now.’” History of the Church, 4:597, quoted here:
    https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/content/knowledge-of-gods-plan
    If You Could Hie to Kolob
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/music/library/hymns/if-you-could-hie-to-kolob
    “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14434-space-is-big-you-just-won-t-believe-how-vastly-hugely
    Joseph Smith and the Possibility of Comics Andrew Knaupp and Sal Velluto, Pillar of Light Mark Elwood, The Glass Looker Noah Van Sciver, Joseph Smith and the Mormons, by Eric W. Jepson
    https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/joseph-smith-and-the-possibility-of-comics-andrew-knaupp-and-sal-velluto-pillar-of-light-mark-elwood-the-glass-looker-noah

    • 1 hr 7 min
    5.7 War, Polygamy, and Disobedience

    5.7 War, Polygamy, and Disobedience

    When exactly are we supposed to be obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law? Nathan Oman’s article on Civil Disobedience in Latter-day Saint Thought took us down a winding road exploring this question. Ride along!
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    Civil Disobedience in Latter-day Saint Thought, by Nathan B. Oman
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/civil-disobedience-in-latter-day-saint-thought/
    The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/
    General conference
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04?lang=eng
    Peacemakers Needed, by President Russell M. Nelson
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2023/04/47nelson?lang=eng
    The Restoration of Conscientious Objection, by Ron Madsen
    https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/british-latter-day-saint-conscientious-objectors-in-world-war-i
    QI Series M, Episode 2 - Military Matters (transcript)
    https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/qi/episodes/13/2/
    Google Books Ngram Viewer: conscientious objection and civil disobedience
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conscientious+objection%2Cconscientious+objector%2C+civil+disobedience&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
    Doctrine and Covenants 98
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/98?lang=eng
    The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men, by Carol Lynn Pearson
    https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Eternal-Polygamy-Haunting-Hearts/dp/0997458208
    Wiki on “The Freeze” in Ghana
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Ghana#%22The_Freeze%22
    You Can't Close My Heart: Ghanaian Saints and the Freeze
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/2015-12-0001-you-cant-close-my-heart-ghanaian-saints-and-the-freeze?lang=eng
    Helmuth Hübener
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener
    Hübener, a play by Thomas F. Rogers
    https://www.amazon.com/Huebener-Other-Plays-Thomas-Rogers/dp/0963261800
    (This includes a review of the play Hübener!  Check it out!) Review: The Plays of Thomas F. Rogers, by B. Kent Harrison
    https://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleHarrisonThomasRogers.html
    The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, by William Morris.  Look for the story “Reach”, a science fiction story about an oppressive future where a bishop is released from a calling his conscious mind doesn't realize he held.
    https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Abyss-Strange-Mormon-Stories/dp/1948218682

    • 1 hr 2 min
    5.6 History, narration, and theological work

    5.6 History, narration, and theological work

    Our church’s framing of the apostasy and restoration is changing, and Miranda Wilcox wrote about it!  How we narrate our religious history affects our general understanding of Christian history, and can help us better appreciate the centuries of progress between the ancient apostles and 1820.
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    Narrating Religious Heritage: Apostasy and Restoration, by Miranda Wilcox
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/narrating-religious-heritage/
    Joseph Smith and the Possibility of Comics
    Reviewed by Theric Jepson
    Dialogue 56, no. 1, Spring 2023 (in press)
    Pillar of Light, by Andrew G. Knaupp (Author), Sal Velluto (Illustrator)
    https://www.cedarfort.com/pages/pillar-of-light
    The Glass Looker, by Mark Elwood
    https://theglasslooker.com/about/
    Joseph Smith and the Mormons, by Noah Van Sciver
    https://amzn.to/3JPxRJw
    Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress, by Gregory Barber
    https://www.wired.com/story/ada-palmer-sci-fi-future-weird-hand-progress/
    Remnant or Replacement? Outlining a Possible Apostasy Narrative, by Nicholas J. Frederick and Joseph M. Spencer
    https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5076&context=byusq
    1st Nephi 11-14
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/11
    John the Baptist wiki
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist
    How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History), by Thomas Cahill 
    https://amzn.to/3I4v8uF
    Martyrs' Crossing, by Melissa Leilani Larson
    https://www.melissaleilanilarson.com/martyrs-crossing

    • 55 min
    5.5 Holy Matrimony, Holy Grail

    5.5 Holy Matrimony, Holy Grail

    So, was Jesus married? Our holiday edition of our series on open questions follows Christopher James Blythe’s article on the same question. Conspiracy, Assassin’s Creed, Dan Brown, this one’s got it all. Lots of great links in the show notes! See you next year!
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    Was Jesus Married?, by Christopher James Blythe
    https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5137&context=byusq
    The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/
    The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, by The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail
    Wiki on the book!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Blood_and_the_Holy_Grail
    Identical ancestors point
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point
    Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse, by Christopher James Blythe
    https://amzn.to/3WBKo6E
    LDS Church Issues Statement Regarding "The Da Vinci Code"
    https://www.ksl.com/article/266159/lds-church-issues-statement-regarding-the-da-vinci-code
    Evil along the Mississippi: Stories from Nauvoo, by Christopher James Blythe
    https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/17-1-evil-along-the-mississippi-stories-from-nauvoo/
    Introducing Introductions to Mormon Thought.  The first two books are linked there and below: Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal, by Kristine Haglund, and Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist
    https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/introducing-introductions-to-mormon-thought/
    https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p058332
    https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=83xxc9pb9780252044090
    Dialogue Book Report #19: Strange Mormon Fiction: Dave Butler and William Morris
    https://www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/dialogue-book-report-19-strange-mormon-fiction-dave-butler-and-william-morris/

    • 25 min
    5.4 Agency and its opposition

    5.4 Agency and its opposition

    Agency is critical to the plan of salvation, and the adversary wanted it gone. But how? Philip L. Barlow wrote a banger of an article in Dialogue looking at prevailing theories, and argues the theology yields critical implications for how Mormons interact with government, politics, and church organization.  It’s a great read!!!
    Philip L. Barlow has a doctorate of theology (Th.D.) from the Harvard Divinity School and serves on the boards of directors for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and the Dialogue Foundation.  How cool is that?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Barlow
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    Article for today: “Shards of Combat: How Did Satan Seek to Destroy the Agency of Man?”, by Philip L. Barlow
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/shards-of-combat/
    The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/
    Darlene Young’s “A plan of salvation” isn’t yet published, but will appear in Irreantum’s next issue, “The Plan”.
    https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/
    Moses 4:3
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/4?lang=eng#p3
    Bonus!  Jaywalking chat was cut from the episode, but enjoy Adam Ruins Everything - Why Jaywalking Is a Crime
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFn7MiJz_s

    • 1 hr 10 min
    5.3 Eternal individuation and King Follett

    5.3 Eternal individuation and King Follett

    We welcome William Morris aka Wm, founder of A Motley Vision, onto our show to talk about the BYU studies article, The King Follett Discourse: Pinnacle or Peripheral?, by James E. Faulconer and Susannah Morrison.  We talk about the nature of individuality, intelligence, and our own eternal destiny, as revealed by Joseph Smith and studied by prophets and scholars ever since.  We even may have come to a new conclusion on the discourse as a whole?  Join us!
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    Article for today: The King Follett Discourse: Pinnacle or Peripheral?, by James E. Faulconer and Susannah Morrison
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-king-follett-discourse-pinnacle-or-peripheral/
    The full issue: Yet to be revealed, open questions in Latter-Day Saint theology. Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens
    https://byustudies.byu.edu/journal/60-3/
    Motley Vision website
    https://motleyvision.org/
    The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, by William Morris
    https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Abyss-Strange-Mormon-Stories/dp/1948218682
    Email subscription for Wm
    https://buttondown.email/motleyvision
    God has created “both things to act and things to be acted upon”, 2 Nephi 2:14
    https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2#p14
    Science the Key to Theology: Volume One: Preliminaries, by Steven L. Peck
    https://www.amazon.com/Science-Key-Theology-One-Preliminaries/dp/0998605204
    The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media, by John Durham Peters
    https://www.amazon.com/Marvelous-Clouds-Toward-Philosophy-Elemental/dp/022625383X
    Dark Watch and other Mormon-American stories, by William Morris 
    https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Watch-other-Mormon-American-stories-ebook/dp/B00WQHCCFG
    Talking to Dante in the Spirit World,by Daniel Cooper
    https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/talking-to-dante-in-the-spirit-world-by-daniel-cooper/
    Hemingway in Paradise and Other Mormon Poems, by Scott Hales
    https://www.amazon.com/Hemingway-Paradise-Other-Mormon-Poems/dp/B09WQBHBQG
    Thanks to our sponsor!  Check out Beyond the Witch's Woods: Book One of the Kingdom of Adair, by Nathan K Caulder 
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BF2Q4TJX/

    • 1 hr 28 min

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