Runtu wrote:Then I'll definitely have to read his stuff. I have an MA in literature and literary theory, and I'm not convinced the Book of Mormon is great literature. Of course, I've been told many times by Dr. Peterson and others that it's not supposed to be great literature but is supposed to be a religious history.
But then, we've also been told that it's not really a history, either. It's a doctrinal text. But it doesn't contains all the doctrine. Just the fulness of the gospel.
"Every post you can hitch your faith on is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies, a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly"
The Shins - A Comet Appears
Blixa wrote:If being a professor of literature at a University back east is all it takes to speak expertly and credibly on whether or not the Book of Mormon is good literature...
I should never be drinking Pepsi when I read your posts. That one got some carbonation up my nose.