I ought to begin by saying that I mean here only to clarify my own position.

I just finished reading this remarkable paper on the idea of planning for a library management class. I had such diabolical fun reading it, and especially in thinking about how nicely it states my own concerns about planning one’s lessons in advance, that I decided I had to link to it here. Read the rest of this entry »

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This lesson’s outline is pretty simple and basic. Having read the notes for Jim’s lessons (where he gives lots of good stuff) and the conversation following, I decided to concentrate on the outline and history, actually. As we read some of the scriptures included, we’ll see where the discussion goes.
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This is my seventh post on Paul’s legacy, based mainly on Neil Elliott’s book: LIBERATING PAUL: THE JUSTICE OF GOD AND THE POLITICS OF THE APOSTLE, and this is my third post on Romans 13:1-7. I’ve taken a lot of time with these seven verses because they have been so important historically in the interpretation of Paul and because they have done so much damage within world history.

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A student in my Gospel Doctrine Class began telling me about a book she was currently reading, “The Politics of Jesus.”  (One reviewer says, “If I had only one work of twentieth-century theology to read, this would be it .”)  Read the rest of this entry »

Hebrews is one of the several neglected books in what I think is the generally neglected New Testament, to our very VERY great loss.

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Lesson 42: James Read the rest of this entry »

Robf has hinted that any political study of the Nephites ought to begin with an investigation into the politics of the Jaredites. And I couldn’t agree more, even though I undeniably have my own agenda in thinking about Nephite politics. What I’d like to do in this post is try to lay a foundation for thinking about Jaredite political origins. More important for my own project and concerns, I would like also to raise some theological/textual questions about the place of the Jaredites in the Heilsgeschichte that is the story of the Jews/Gentiles in the Abrahamic covenant. Read the rest of this entry »

“Romans is not a source of gospel knowledge for the spiritually untutored; it is not the initial place to turn to learn of Christ and his laws. In the hands of the sectarian world, Romans is a book on calculus in the hands of students who are still struggling to learn the basics of common arithmetic,” Read the rest of this entry »

In some studies I (and others here) have been trying to maintain in the marvelous thirty-second chapter of Alma, I’m coming more and more to recognize how profoundly political the Zoramite encounter is, and it is forcing me (again) to ask questions about the nature of Nephite politics. Some major questions follow some ridiculous initial thoughts Read the rest of this entry »