MST: Doesn't Dallin H Oaks count as Mormon and a Scholar?

[_sock puppet]

Oh, Daniel. If you're reading, perhaps you could explain why you don't consider Dallin H Oaks to be a Mormon scholar and have not included his testimony at MST.

Let's see. Certainly being an 'apostle' he's got to have enough cred to be considered a TBM to satisfy the Mormon part of being a Mormon scholar.

Is it his academic achievements that are wanting? DHO was a law clerk to a supreme court justice in the 1950s. He's written several law review articles. He's been a professor of law at University of Chicago and BYU. He was acting dean at U of Chicago, and oh, university president at BYU. Do his administrative roles cancel out his academic achievements?

[_harmony]

Ain't gonna happen.

[_sock puppet]

Ain't gonna happen.

DHO ain't scholarly enough? Ain't Mormon enough?

I don't get it.

[_jon]

Ain't gonna happen.

It might if DCP outlives DHO...

[_sock puppet]

Ain't gonna happen.

It might if DCP outlives DHO...

What? Can't DHO be quoted while still alive?

[_jon]

I think you'll find that no current leader, no matter their academic qualification, wishes to associate themselves with MST. There's just too much PR risk in being linked with 'testimonies' that include strong feminism etc. DCP might borrow their words to provide a posthumous post or two from relative celebrity Mormon's (Arrington) but he's scrabbling for content from senior types.

Now that Mormon.org is fulfilling the online need for the Church to promote members testimonies (regardless of intellect), MST will quickly become an obscure folly.

DCP might risk some quotes from dead people but I doubt he's got the backbone for taking on the hierarchy.

[_Buffalo]

Personally if he really wants to add some credibility to his site, DCP should solicit a testimony from D. Michael Quinn.

[_sock puppet]

Personally if he really wants to add some credibility to his site, DCP should solicit a testimony from D. Michael Quinn.

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