Interview with Blake Ostler about Vol. 4 of Exploring Mormon Thought AVAILABLE NOW—Exploring Mormon Thought, Vol 4: God's Plan to Heal Evil Now available for order from Greg Kofford Books: https://gregkofford.com/products/emt4
I am pleased to welcome back Thomas Jay Oord to the podcast. His new book 'Questions & Answers for God Can't' answers many questions that naturally follow from the ideas he presented in his previous work 'God Can't' In his best-selling book, God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils, Thomas Jay Oord solves the problem of suffering. Oord offers five aspects of a real answer to why a loving God doesn't prevent pointless pain. The most helpful: God can't st...
Links: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02536/full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmTFdCYALgY http://mormonpuzzlepieces.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-mind-body-problem-consciousness-and.html https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/benefit-of-mormon-solution-to-the-mind-body-problem-over-the-concept-of-dualism-epiphenomenology-behaviorism-and-identity/
095-Heavenly Mother (Part 3) by Exploring Mormon Thought
094-Heavenly Mother (Part 2) by Exploring Mormon Thought
093-Heavenly Mother (Part 1) by Exploring Mormon Thought
Did Joseph Smith teach spirit birth? He says no: http://signaturebookslibrary.org/line-upon-line-11/ He says yes (well, he really says 'maybe'): Go down to the article ‘A CONTINUATION OF THE SEEDS”: JOSEPH SMITH AND SPIRIT BIRTH Brian C. Hales* https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=mormonhistory The Idea of Pre-existence in the Development of Mormon Thought: (audio and a link to the paper): http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2018/11/the-idea-of-pre-existe...
Ep91-Sacramental Re-member-ing as At-one-ment-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 17 by Exploring Mormon Thought
090-The Atonement Heals the Broken Heart-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 16 by Exploring Mormon Thought
089-The Poison of Sin and Atonement-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 15 by Exploring Mormon Thought
088-The Mirror of Judgement-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 14 by Exploring Mormon Thought
087-Original Sin and the Human Condition-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 13 by Exploring Mormon Thought
086-The Nature of Being in the World-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 12 by Exploring Mormon Thought
085-Ways of Being in the World-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 11 by Exploring Mormon Thought
084-The Fruit of Our Mortal Lives-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 10 by Exploring Mormon Thought
083-The Cherubim's Sword-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 9 by Exploring Mormon Thought
082-We Are All Adam & Eve-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 8 by Exploring Mormon Thought
081-Human Sacrifice, Plural Marriage and the I-Thou Relation-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 7 by Exploring Mormon Thought
080-Zion as the Sacred Society Reflecting Divine Love-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 6 by Exploring Mormon Thought
Ep79-The Peer Relationship as Christology-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 5 by Exploring Mormon Thought
078-The Divine Risk of Love-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 4 by Exploring Mormon Thought
077-The Language of Ritual Viewed From Within-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 3 by Exploring Mormon Thought
076-An Ethic of Religious Discourse-Fire on the Horizon-Ch 2 by Exploring Mormon Thought
In this short volume, Blake Ostler departs from the more analytically rigorous approach that defined his groundbreaking Exploring Mormon Thought series and instead offers a meditation and reflection on the deeper and more important aspects of Mormon theology. Ostler explores two of the most important and central aspects of Mormon theology and practice: the Atonement and the temple endowment. Utilizing observations from Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Buber, and others, Ostler offers further insights o...
Conspiring Prayer with Mark Karris: Divine Echoes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078WFV3NT/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Conspiring prayer website: http://conspiringprayer.com/ Marks website: http://markgregorykarris.com/
Topics Discussed: • Self Deception and the Corruption of Human Intellect • The Relation of Experience and Interpretation to Spiritual Knowledge • The Objection from Conflicting Religious Experiences • The Relativity of Degrees of Light Theory of Religious Diversity • The Argument from Arrogance
Topics Discussed: 1. How Are We Aware of Noumenal Experience? 2. How Could Post-conceptual Language Expressed in a Publicly Available Dialogue Be Known to be True Subjectively? 3. Kierkegaardian Subjectivity. 4. Interpersonal Encounter with a Thou that Precedes and Exceeds Me: A Levinasian Addendum to Buber. http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2019/02/ep72-knowledge-is-being-pt-2-vol-5.html
Topics Discussed: A. The Veridicality Objection. 1. The Certainty of Knowledge. 2. The Kantian Assumption. 3. The Dis-appearance of the Noumenal/Phenomenal Distinction in Mormon Epistemic Experiences.
Topics Discussed: • Epistemology of Religious Experience • The Distinctive Mormon Epistemic Practices • Faith, Evidence and Reason
Purchase the books: God Can't: https://www.amazon.com/God-Cant-Believe-after-Tragedy-ebook/dp/B07MP93F1W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547100495&sr=8-1&keywords=god+can%27t+oord The Uncontrolling Love of God: https://www.amazon.com/Uncontrolling-Love-God-Relational-Providence-ebook/dp/B01959VKI2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547100540&sr=8-1&keywords=the+uncontrolling+love+of+god Show Notes: http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2019/01/069-god-cant-thomas-jay-oord.html
