This Wednesday, June 3rd, the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding at BYU will be sponsoring an academic symposium entitled “Sacred Space.” The symposium will commence at 9:15 a.m. at the Gordon B. Hinckley Center at Brigham Young University, with a welcome from President Cecil O. Samuelson. Presenters will include Terryl Givens, Richard A. [...]
November 18, 2008 – 11:30 am
The last of the lectures given at the SANE Symposium have been made available online. They are all listed at this link: http://www.templestudy.com/2008/11/11/videos-of-sane-symposium-lectures-on-temples-and-ritual-in-antiquity/ Some of the lectures are only currently available on YouTube, but will be also be made available uncut on Google Video in the coming days.
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, hugh nibley, neal a. maxwell, obedience, sacrifice, scholar, tithing
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November 11, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Last Friday I was able to attend the symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” sponsored by The Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) and the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. It was an excellent symposium about the temple, with a wide range of topics related to the temple presented by students [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged apostasy, architecture, asian, BYU, early christian, egyptian, imagery, incense, lecture, liturgy, matthew brown, near east, online, prayer circle, priesthood, rituals, SANE, scholar, tabernacle, video
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October 8, 2008 – 11:40 am
The BYU Religious Studies Center has posted a new webpage with information about the Students of the Ancient Near East Symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual In Antiquity” that will be taking place at BYU on November 7th. They have the date, time, location, maps, schedule, phone number, flyer, and other information available. See it here: [...]
