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Dr. Huff, who wrote the essay I am linking, is the Director of Campus Ministry at the University of Mary (Bismarck, ND), where I just started working last month. It is an interesting take on the Book of Mormon as sacred text worthy of study that I thought many of you might like to read. https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V43N02_214.pdf As always, feel free to excerpt any part that strikes you.
I’ll play.
Quote:For many years, I’ve embraced Smith as a type of
vernacular visionary, who in another time and place would have
simply been accorded the title of mystic.
Quote:Excavated from the bedrock of upstate New York or harvested
from the fertile soil of a farm boy’s frontier imagination, it
reminds us that the ground upon which we stand is enchanted
and that the age of miracles is nowhere near its final chapter.
Quote:Quote:The New Testament book of Hebrews concludes with sage advice:
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have
entertained angels unawares” (Heb. 13:2). Today, this apostolic
counsel is a basic axiom of the interfaith imperative.
Quote:Here’s where we come face to face with the audacity of Mormon
belief. Some religions speak of heavenly messengers sent to
earth. Some speak of divine books delivered supernaturally to select
human agents. Some speak of living prophets loaded with divine
mandate. Some speak of holy objects handled by the chosen
few during a golden age of faith. Some speak of lost empires.
Mormonism does it all. The real scandal of the Mormon
worldview for the outsider may be its metaphysical greediness. It
believes too much!
I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks.
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