Natural Law?
If you haven’t noticed yet, we’re not big on modernist notions of truth around here. Thus, as you can probably guess, I am not much of a believer in Natural Law. There is certainly a strain of Mormon...
View ArticleIs Jesus a God in the NT?
The short answer: not really. The long answer: There are two texts that might say that Jesus is God. John 1:1 and Rom 9:5. Let’s start with Rom 9:5. This text reads: Theirs [the Jews] are the...
View ArticleTrue or False?
Religious truths are more like the truths of poetry than the truths of physics.
View ArticleSmells and Bells
“Smells and bells” is a short-hand, colloquial way of speaking about high church liturgy, especially Orthodox and Catholic. It is sometimes contrasted with “Happy Clappy” low-church liturgy of...
View ArticleIs Mormonism Euhemerism?
The ancient Greek thinker Euhemerus was a mythographer whose reputation has lived on until today as an influential theory for explaining religion. He argued that mythological accounts were records of...
View ArticleThe Trinity, Two Formulations
Yesterday, I heard St. Augustine’s formulation of the Trinity. He gives it as a series of logical propositions as follows: The Father is God The Son is God The Holy Spirit is God The Father is not the...
View ArticleKing Benjamin Killed God
Jesus set up an impossible paradox when he explained that the two great commandments are to love God and to love one’s neighbor (though he was not the first to summarize the Law in such a way). The...
View ArticleThe Formation of the Gods
I have suggested before in more oblique ways that the humanist account of the stable subject is at odds with Mormon doctrine of divinization, and in this way Mormonism has more in common with the...
View ArticleThe Blessings of an Unknown God
This post could be called anti-Areopagean, since in a reversal of the Acts 17 narrative, I write to those who inherited a supremely certain God and extol the virtues of a God unknown. I propose that...
View ArticleThe Creation of American Ignorance
Over on BCC, Steve P has posted a nice summary of an article in New Scientist which attributes the decline in scientific literacy in the US to three factors: relativism in the academy, unserious...
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