‘Faithful Scholarship’ And The Mainstreaming Of Mormon Studies As Mormon studies emerges at non-LDS institutions of higher education (Utah Valley State College, Utah State University, Claremont Graduate University), it will be shaped by negotiation among various interests. The most important set of LDS interests is represented by “faithful scholarship,” which has come to set the …
Speaker: John Charles Duffy
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report
Mormon Cinema At Six: A Progress Report Although Mormons have been a topic for films as early as 1905, and LDS filmmakers have been telling quintessential Mormon stories since the 1930s, Richard Dutcher’s films God’s Army (2000) and Brigham City (2001) mark what some consider to be the birth of “Mormon Cinema”, feature-length films with …
The New Missionary Discussions And The Future Of Correlation
In promoting new lessons and teaching techniques, “Preach My Gospel,” the new guide for missionaries, also enacts changes in the content and mechanism of correlation, Church leaders’ efforts to ensure uniformity and sound doctrine in LDS discourse. What can we discern about leaders’ concerns from a careful examination of the new missionary discussions? John-Charles Duffy, …
How Much Does It Matter If The Book Of Mormon Is True?
What exactly are the consequences in assuming that the Book of Mormon is “true”? Does it matter if it is not? What are the strengths and weaknesses of arguments for a compromise? If the only real test for Book of Mormon historicity lies in the nebulous realm of spiritual authentication, how much of the discursive …
ANGELS IN AMERICA REVISITED
Set during the Reagan era at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America incorporates Mormonism’s sacred history into a symbolic universe that includes angelic visitations, prophetic callings, and seer stones. Ten years after the play was first staged, a six-hour, 60 million HBO production with Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, and Emma …
PROGRESSIVE ORTHODOXY: A NEW CHAPTER IN MORMON ASSIMILATION?
Recent years have seen the rise of a Mormon intellectual movement I call “progressive orthodoxy.” Exemplified most prominently by the limited geography model for the Book of Mormon, progressive orthodoxy seeks to affirm LDS faith claims in ways that are credible by scholarly standards. Progressive orthodox scholars thus seek to balance two opposing forces that …
An Uncomfortable Connection: Brian David Mitchell and the Mormon Prophetic Tradition
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Panel. LDS Film: Possibilities and Constraints
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Author Meets Critics: An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …
Panel. Civil Disobedience and Latter-day Saints: Personal Voices
SL03091, This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the March on Washington, at which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. It also marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revelation reversing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ policy of …