February 19, 2009 – 8:05 pm
Orson Scott Card wrote a great article today on Mormon Times, highlighting the tremendous influence that Hugh Nibley and C.S. Lewis have had on his “Christian education” over the years, but particularly when he was younger. I couldn’t agree more with his feelings about the impact that these two scholars have had. I’ve particularly been [...]
November 29, 2008 – 3:04 pm
(Continued from Part 1) One of the common misconceptions concerning the law of consecration is that it is often conflated with the United Order. When we think that these two are one in the same thing we run into difficulties understanding them. When we don’t properly understand the law, we can’t live it. When we [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged celestial, church, consecration, covenant, ezra taft benson, love, money, neal a. maxwell, obedience, principles, riches, sacrifice, steward
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November 17, 2008 – 9:07 pm
“Some day we will live the law of consecration again, but until then we must be ‘willing’ to live it.” “It is Church doctrine that the full Law of Consecration was suspended by the Lord through the Prophet in 1834.” “My belief is that things will get progressively worse until the actual Second Coming when [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged bruce r. mcconkie, BYU, consecration, conversation, covenant, gordon b. hinckley, neal a. maxwell, obedience, sacrifice, scholar, symposium, tithing
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October 22, 2008 – 3:33 pm
Grandpa Enoch over at Pronaos wrote a few days ago that Archaeology Magazine‘s latest issue has a cover article by Sandra Scham entitled “The World’s First Temple”. The magazine Science also did an article on the same subject back in January 2008. There are many articles that are being published, all focused on one archeological [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged archaeology, bible, book, civilization, garden of eden, Göbekli Tepe, holy place, jacob, matthew brown, mountain, neolithic, rituals, sacrifice, scholar, symbols, terrible questions, video
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September 17, 2008 – 10:41 am
Hugh Nibley gave a lecture in 1975 on “Sacred Vestments” which was later transcribed and included in the collected works volume Temple and Cosmos (pgs. 91-132). The entire paper is fascinating, and highly recommended reading. One of the things he wrote about were certain Chinese artifacts which had been found depicting two mythological gods, Nüwa [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Scholarship
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Also tagged ancients, celestial, chinese, civilization, compass, construction, cosmology, creation, earth, heaven, marks, marriage, noah, philosophy, rituals, scholar, square, symbols, universe, veil, yin yang
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