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Latest Addition To The Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Series
Latest Addition To The Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Series
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
FARMS is pleased to announce the release of a new volume of previously unpublished class lectures by celebrated Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, who recently passed away at age 94. Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity, volume 15 in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series, comprises Nibley’s finely detailed lecture notes for a course he taught at Brigham Young University in 1954 on the office of bishop in the early Christian church.
Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy And The Mormon Priesthood, Michael Hubbard Mackay, Roger Terry, Reviewer
Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy And The Mormon Priesthood, Michael Hubbard Mackay, Roger Terry, Reviewer
BYU Studies Quarterly
Considering how central the concept of authority is in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is somewhat surprising that so few scholarly examinations of this topic have been attempted, which makes this book by Michael Hubbard MacKay a welcome and overdue contribution to the short list of publications on authority in the Church. And for the most part, MacKay does not disappoint. Although much of what he presents is not new and the writing can at times be challenging to digest, his exploration of the topic is both surprisingly thorough and notably insightful.
Who Is Leaving The Church?, Stephen Cranney
Who Is Leaving The Church?, Stephen Cranney
BYU Studies Quarterly
Who is leaving the Church? The blogosphere and informal ward council discussions have no shortage of speculation on this point, but there is surprisingly very little representative research to help shed light on this issue in a clear, systematic way. Because members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make up a small fraction of the total population, most random surveys that ask about religion and former religion pick up only a handful of people with a Latter-day Saint background or affiliation in any wave. (For example, the 2016 General Social Survey reported only twenty-three members.) Numbers like …