April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am
A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com. It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, dead, eternal life, exaltation, family, harold bloom, monks, physical, plan of salvation, poem, preoccupation, ray kurzweil, relationships, resurrection, science, sealing, temples
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February 6, 2010 – 6:28 pm
It is fascinating to me all the places that I hear or see or read glimpses of temple theology, the “scattered fragments” of ritual tradition. As Nibley found out, and taught extensively, these remnants are found all around us, everywhere. My wife was listening to the radio on the way to the grocery store last [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged athletics, covenant, initiation, marriage, new name, obedience, pop culture, preparation, rites, rituals, sacred, society, traditions, tribe
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In case you missed it, the inexhaustible Hugh Nibley is still hard at work churning out volume after volume of incredibly insightful reading material on a host of subjects relevant to the Church. As I heard one person remark, “Hugh Nibley wouldn’t let a little thing like death slow him down!” Indeed, the presses are [...]
August 3, 2008 – 11:36 am
One of our readers, RBiddulph, recently pointed me to a quote by Harold Bloom, a well-known literary and cultural critic who is currently a Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University, who once said this about Joseph Smith: I can only attribute to his genius or daemons his uncanny recovery of elements in ancient [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Tidbits
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Also tagged esoteric, harold bloom, hymn, joseph smith, music, prophet, rituals, sacrifice, traditions, w. w. phelps
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A member of another faith asked me the following question: In the [LDS] service that I attended, the speaker said that service to the Temple is the most important service that we can provide. Is this opinion common across members of the LDS church? Why is service to the Temple held in higher regard than, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged atonement, blessing, church, exaltation, mortality, offerings, ordinances, presence, redemption, revelation, salvation, service, sin, tithing, vicarious, visit
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