A New Smear Piece in "Mormon Interpreter"

[_Drifting]

We have Mormon Scholars Testify and now we have MI's Mormon Scholars Review both are equally amateurish and lame.

I thought Mormon Scholars (mostly living, some dead) Testify had run its course.

[_Yoda]

Another issue that comes up here. How many Mormons are there with degrees from a seminary or a graduate degree from a religion department?

Considering that BYU, a Mormon school, does not offer ANY degree programs in Religious Studies, not many. At one time, I thought I wanted to be a teacher for CES and checked into it. There is a Religion series that you can take and get Religion credits for involving teaching seminary (which I took). But I was told that as far as working for the Church in some type of teaching capacity, beyond taking the required Religion classes to graduate, the best thing to do was to get some type of Education degree.

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BYU offers an M.A. in Religious Education, which is meant for seminary teachers and other CES types. Elder Holland holds that degree.

They also offer more general religious graduate degrees, but from what I hear being invited into the program is like receiving the second anointing. I guess they want to be absolutely sure that you can be trusted to study the scriptures without going apostate.

By way of example, Avraham Gileadi has an M.A. in Ancient Scripture and a Ph.D. in Ancient Studies from BYU. Stephen E. Robinson also has an M.A. in Ancient Scripture from BYU.

And here's a dude who managed to get a B.A. in University Studies (Ancient Scripture) at BYU. I guess there's not really an undergraduate program set up, but if you're special they'll cobble something together for you.

[_lulu]

BYU offers an MA in Religious Education, which is meant for seminary teachers and other CES types. Elder Holland holds that degree.

They also offer more general religious graduate degrees, but from what I hear being invited into the program is like receiving the second anointing. I guess they want to be absolutely sure that you can be trusted to study the scriptures without going apostate.

By way of example, Avraham Gileadi has an M.A. in Ancient Scripture and a Ph.D. in Ancient Studies from BYU. Stephen E. Robinson also has an M.A. in Ancient Scripture from BYU.

And here's a dude who managed to get a B.A. in University Studies (Ancient Scripture) at BYU. I guess there's not really an undergraduate program set up, but if you're special they'll cobble something together for you.

Thanks for putting that up.

As near as I can tell (the website is a little hard to search) you can get a

BA in Classic Studies
BA Ancient Near East Studies
MA Religious Education
MA in Anthropology
Ph.D. Sociololgy

ETA It looks like some of the newer hires have degrees that you would more typically find in a seminary or religion department.


http://religion.BYU.edu/directory

[_3sheets2thewind]

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[_Kishkumen]

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Wow. I am so shocked that the latest smear artist of LDS apologetics is a Republican.

[_Pahoran]

It is raining new articles out here in the land of Mopologetic Studies. With the new, "steaming" issue of the MI hot off the press and still unreviewed at Amazon.com, the Board of Editors has seen fit to release a brand new "review," and this one is surely worthy of "classic-FARMS" designation:<Snip the rest.>

Scratchy, your thread title contains an incorrect preposition. Change that "in" to "about," and you'll be right.

The review on MormonInterpreter is in no sense a "smear piece." Your calling it that is merely your conventional anti-Mormon knee-jerk reaction. Given that you hate the Church of Jesus Christ, and reserve your special hatred for those who defend it, you of course didn't need to read her article in order to call it a "smear piece;" that's just what you would call it no matter what.

It says nothing at all about Mr Jackson; it merely critiques his book. Get over it.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_Pahoran]

It's like they have an ongoing contest to see who can out-douchebag the others.

Then it's a good thing you aren't involved, isn't it? No-one would ever be able to compete with you on that score.

What a worthless endeavor the "Interpreter" is turning out to be.

And yet here you all are, obsessing about it.

Regards,
Pahoran

[_Bob Loblaw]

Then it's a good thing you aren't involved, isn't it? No-one would ever be able to compete with you on that score.

Definitely not. I'm the lowest kind of scum.

And yet here you all are, obsessing about it.

Regards,
Pahoran

A single post is an obsession?

Affectionately yours,

Bob

[_Pahoran]

Wow. I am so shocked that the latest smear artist of LDS apologetics is a Republican.

Wow. I am so shocked that one of the first to automatically accept, and mindlessly regurgitate, the worthless Scratch's outright lie that the writer of the article is any sort of "smear artist" would be you.



Regards,
Pahoran