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On The Right Or Left: Benjamin And The Scapegoat, Terrence L. Szink, John W. Welch Aug 2023

On The Right Or Left: Benjamin And The Scapegoat, Terrence L. Szink, John W. Welch

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Over the years, scholars have found in King Benjamin's speech much that is at home in the ancient Israelite autumn festivals surrounding the Day of Atonement. An essential part of that day was the scapegoat ritual.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Hundreds Attend Farms Symposia Aug 2023

Hundreds Attend Farms Symposia

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

On March 23, some 700-800 people from Utah and other parts of the country turned out to hear presentations about the ancient scrolls and how they contribute to LDS understanding of gospel teachings, the Bible, and other aspects of biblical life. The symposium was sponsored by BYU Religious Education and FARMS.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

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No abstract provided.


Preliminary Reports Aug 2023

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The following two abstracts summarize papers recently received by FARMS. The complete papers, including surveys of the literature and exhaustive examples, provide interesting insights into otherwise perplexing aspects of the Book of Mormon.


Irs-Sanctioned Secrecy For Religious Nonprofits: Stepstone Or Stumbling Block?, Mark W. Smith Aug 2023

Irs-Sanctioned Secrecy For Religious Nonprofits: Stepstone Or Stumbling Block?, Mark W. Smith

Master's Projects and Capstones

Internal Revenue Service code automatically confers 501(c)3 nonprofit charity status on religious nonprofits which appear to be “A church, convention of churches, or association of churches described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(i),” as labeled in the IRS Form 990. Additionally, religious charities functioning as a part of a church have no requirement to report any financial information or policies to the IRS or anyone else. This acquiescence to secrecy keeps most of the data on these nonprofit organizations unavailable for research or to inform legislative action or agency policies. This automatic status may also lead to complacency in organizations in financial accountability, …


Adoremos Al Señor, Viestur Pavasars, Marcos N. Kempff Aug 2023

Adoremos Al Señor, Viestur Pavasars, Marcos N. Kempff

Cursos de CoExtensión

Un curso sencillo que examina las distintas partes de nuestra tradición Luterana litúrgica. Se combina el estudio de los principios bíblicos y teológicos que determinan los patrones de adoración congregacional con las liturgias luteranas y sus himnos. Se contempla el estudio de otros ritos, el uso del arte gráfico cristiano, el calendario eclesiástico y liturgias para eventos especiales.


La Ley Y El Evangelo, Roberto Hoeferkamp, Marcos N. Kempff Aug 2023

La Ley Y El Evangelo, Roberto Hoeferkamp, Marcos N. Kempff

Cursos de CoExtensión

Un documento teológico breve sobre la doctrina de Ley y Evangelio en la Teología Luterana y en ejercicio del ministerio pastoral. Ofrece aplicaciones a las realidad teológicas en América Latina.


Teología Bíblica, L. Bangs, Marcos N. Kempff Aug 2023

Teología Bíblica, L. Bangs, Marcos N. Kempff

Cursos de CoExtensión

Este curso fue preparado por el Seminario Luterano Boliviano. Lo que da el curso es dar una sinopsis de la Biblia de Génesis a Apocalipsis para ayudar al estudiante captar el plan general de toda la Biblia, enfatizando que el propósito de Dios de salvar al mundo por medio de Jesucristo es el tema que unifica a toda la Biblia. Se enfatiza como se cumplen las profecías del AT en el NT. Es un excelente curso introductorio, especialmente los que tienen pocos conocimientos bíblicos. Este curso bien pudiera ser el primer curso para ser estudiado por un nuevo estudiante en …


El Matrimonio Y La Familia: Su Fundamento Bíblico Y Teológico, Marcos N. Kempff Aug 2023

El Matrimonio Y La Familia: Su Fundamento Bíblico Y Teológico, Marcos N. Kempff

Cursos de CoExtensión

Este curso ofrece un enfoque Bíblico-teológico de la pareja, del matrimonio y de la familia a fin de facilitar el análisis de factores que interpretan la familia y su desarrollo en esta época contemporánea. Afirma, al mismo tiempo, una postura Cristo-céntrica sobre el tema. Introduce la metodología de estudiar casos Bíblicos a fin comprender los variados contextos en los que las parejas y las familias se establecen, se desarrollan, sufre modificaciones importantes y de cómo Dios interviene y restaura nuestra naturaleza contaminada por el pecado.


Gálatas: La Epístola Del Apóstol San Pablo A Los Gálatas, Roberto G. Huebner, Marcos N. Kempff Aug 2023

Gálatas: La Epístola Del Apóstol San Pablo A Los Gálatas, Roberto G. Huebner, Marcos N. Kempff

Cursos de CoExtensión

Estudio de los principios de hermenéutica luterana y su aplicación en la labor exegética de las epístolas paulinas con especial énfasis en el contexto histórico y religioso de la epístola a los Gálatas. El curso enfatiza también los conceptos teológicos que se aplican en el mundo contemporáneo.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


New Volume Explores King Benjamin's Speech Aug 2023

New Volume Explores King Benjamin's Speech

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

A long-awaited, 679-page volume on King Benjamin's speech has just come off the press-one of four books that FARMS is pleased to have published independently in 1998 (see the articles above and on page 4). Edited by John, W. Welch and Stephen D. Ricks, King Benjamin's Speech: "That Ye May Learn Wisdom" is the culmination of many years' research on numerous aspects of this profound address.


Images Of Ancient America Connects Mesoamerican Peoples And Lands To The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Images Of Ancient America Connects Mesoamerican Peoples And Lands To The Book Of Mormon

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Images of Ancient America: Visualizing Book of Mormon Life, by John L. Sorenson, richly portrays the daily lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica and their likely connections to the record known as the Book of Mormon. This fullcolor, large-format volume, the newest release from FARMS, contains careful research and over five hundred high-quality illustrations and photographs that shape vague ghosts from the past into fleshand- blood people.


Truth U, Justice U, Jesus U, Joseph Clair Aug 2023

Truth U, Justice U, Jesus U, Joseph Clair

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Excerpt: "College and university professors in the liberal arts (humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences) are almost entirely left-leaning, liberal, or progressive, and this is especially true among faculty in the humanities and social sciences. Insofar as political party affiliation is representative, the statistics are stunning- roughly 12: I Democrat to Republican in the humanities and social sciences nationally, and this ratio is even more pronounced in certain selective schools (Brown University takes the cake with 60:1).1 Students who attend liberal arts colleges or universities (that is, non-trade, nonvocational schools that require core curricula and keep an array of majors …


Queer Crises: Movements From Queerness And Feelings Of White Religion In The United States, Austin Williams Miller Aug 2023

Queer Crises: Movements From Queerness And Feelings Of White Religion In The United States, Austin Williams Miller

Communication ETDs

Anchored by contemporary crises surrounding queer and trans people in the United States, I employ movements from queerness within an affective queer phenomenological framework to understand how arrangements of “white religion” (Schaefer, 2015, p. 63), a process whereby U.S. American Christian forms escape ideology into religious affective economies in the United States, relegate queer people “to the background… to sustain a certain direction” (Ahmed, 2006, p. 31). I assemble a queer rhetorical context analyzing white religious space in documentary film, secular sexual regulation through contemporary U.S. legal contexts around marriage, and settler colonial Christian nationalist political imaginations to critique how …


"God Put It Into My Heart": Omen-Seeking And Divine Communication Narratives In Contemporary American Protestantism, Emma Crisp Aug 2023

"God Put It Into My Heart": Omen-Seeking And Divine Communication Narratives In Contemporary American Protestantism, Emma Crisp

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This project examines omen-seeking practices within Protestant Christianity in the U.S. Intermountain West. It collates and analyzes the results of ethnographic research into the ways that mainline Protestants experience, interpret, and talk about their personal spiritual experiences. The project finds that divinatory and other omen-seeking practices exist in this context but are not recognized or discussed as divinatory due to the conflation of divination with sortilege and the prevalence of prayer as the primary solicitation method for Protestant forms of augury. Emic categories of omen are distinguished not through generation method (such as the solicited/unsolicited distinction proposed by Tom Mould), …


The Decalogue Of Justice: A Covenantal Application Of Biblical Justice, Andrew Mark Adil Jul 2023

The Decalogue Of Justice: A Covenantal Application Of Biblical Justice, Andrew Mark Adil

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation aims to establish a biblical theology of justice (מִשְׁפָּט), ascertaining the commands and references to justice in Scripture are comprehensively and exclusively rooted in the Moral Law of the Torah, summarized in the Ten Commandments, and embedded in the Covenant of Grace (Old and New), making it binding on New Covenant believers and inextricably attached to the church’s Great Commission mandate. To this end, the study examines the concept of justice in the OT and the Moral Law, contrasting Reformed evangelical hermeneutics with the modern iteration of Liberation Theology in connection with the application of biblical justice. Additionally, …


Gathering And Sending: Welcome, Greetings, Blessings, Webinar 2, Donald W. Sjoberg, Susan C. Johnson Jul 2023

Gathering And Sending: Welcome, Greetings, Blessings, Webinar 2, Donald W. Sjoberg, Susan C. Johnson

Consensus

These words of Gathering and Sending: Welcome, Greetings, Blessings, were part of Webinar 2 (November 15, 2022) of the Webinar Series “For the Sake of the Gospel” hosted by the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Project in partnership with Martin Luther University College and Lutheran Theological Seminary. Endnotes by Karen Kuhnert. Kuhnert opened with an Acknowledgement of Indigenous Neighbours and Territories.


Remembering Lutheran Campus Ministry For The Sake Of The Gospel, Stephen Larson, Kenneth C. Kuhn, Karen Kuhnert Jul 2023

Remembering Lutheran Campus Ministry For The Sake Of The Gospel, Stephen Larson, Kenneth C. Kuhn, Karen Kuhnert

Consensus

This Article was created from the “Remembering Campus Ministry” video (posted November 15, 2022) and shown via Zoom–Share Screen during Webinar 2. Watch the video at https://youtu.be/mcna_jp3iEM. The video was followed by reflections by Rev. Dr. Bishop Donald W. Sjoberg and Rev. Dr. Bishop Susan C. Johnson, both of whom were active in Lutheran Campus Ministry and the Lutheran Student Movement in Canada. See also “Gathering and Sending: Welcome, Greetings, Blessings Webinar 2 (Donald W. Sjoberg, Susan C. Johnson)” in this issue.


On Home, Homelessness, And Existential Transit, Héctor A. Acero Ferrer Jul 2023

On Home, Homelessness, And Existential Transit, Héctor A. Acero Ferrer

Consensus

No abstract provided.


The Gospel Of Worms, E. Barrie Jul 2023

The Gospel Of Worms, E. Barrie

Consensus

No abstract provided.


The Biblical Worldview And Libraries, Gregory A. Smith Jul 2023

The Biblical Worldview And Libraries, Gregory A. Smith

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This essay documents the process and outcomes of a structured, group-based effort used to explore the connections between the biblical worldview and librarianship. Participants in the inquiry process included the author (as moderator) and seven of his colleagues. The process entailed examining four “frames” of the biblical narrative (Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Consummation) and eliciting implications for the realm of libraries. The biblical worldview was found to provide remarkably practical theory concerning libraries, accounting for their existence across diverse cultures worldwide; plausibly explaining virtues, flaws, opportunities, and challenges; and prescribing principles through which Christians can advance God’s kingdom through library …


(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani Jul 2023

(Dis)Locating Meaning: Toward A Hermeneutical Response In Education To Religiously Inspired Extremism, Farid Panjwani

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

A key epistemological assumption in the ideologies of many of the groups termed extremist is that there is an unmediated access to a Divine Will. Driven by this assumption, and facilitated by several other factors, a range of coercive actions (including violence) to force others into submission to the perceived Will of God are seen as justified by some of these groups. A consideration of how religion is discussed in various contexts, from seminaries and schools to media and policy discourses, shows that this assumption about unmediated access to Divine Will is widely shared and that most children grow up …


Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Creation Stories From Popolvuh, Allen J. Christenson Jul 2023

Creation Stories From Popolvuh, Allen J. Christenson

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The following extracts are from Allen J. Christenson's free translation of the creation accounts found in the Popol Vuh. According to Christenson, this religious book of the K'iche'-Maya was completed in the mid-16th century, yet it contains "ancient theological concepts current among the people of Mesoamerica at a time contemporaneous with Book of Mormon history." Readers interested in the following accounts may wish to consult Christenson's complete translation of the Popol Vuh (see article on page 1) because of the helpful glosses that are not reproduced here.


New Translation Of Popol Vuh Available Jul 2023

New Translation Of Popol Vuh Available

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Popol Vuh: The Mythic Sections--Tales of First Beginnings from the Ancient K'iche'-Maya, translated and edited by Allen J. Christenson, is the second book in FARMS's Ancient Texts and Mormon Studies series. Inaugurating the series was James E. Faulconer's Romans 1: Notes and Reflections. Works in this series include the text in its original language, a readable English translation, and commentary on the text especially by LDS scholars.


Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Popol Vuh And Mormon Studies, Allen J. Christenson Jul 2023

The Popol Vuh And Mormon Studies, Allen J. Christenson

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Over the years, the Popol Vuh has received considerable attention among LDS scholars as the best source of authentic ancient American history and religion outside the Book of Mormon. The new translation of the Popul Vuh,1 complete with extensive introduction and the original Maya text in parallel columns, invites further comparison between this Mesoamerican source and LDS scriptures.


Full Issue Jul 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.