Mormon Metaphysics & Theology

Reading Clubs

These are collections of posts for different books. Every now and then I have multiple posts on a single book or books and collect those posts in a single place.

The first reading club was an LDS philosophy reading club reading Orson Pratt, Sterling McMurrin's The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion, and Blake Ostler's The Attributes of God. It petered out a bit and we never really finished Blake's book. Although the discussion spilled over into a lot of other posts on free will that did deal with the rest of the content of the book. Unfortunately other blogs didn't really take up the reading club as planned.

The next reading club was less a "club" than a series of posts on Martha Beck's book Leaving the Saints. In it she discussed "recovered memories" about her father, Hugh Nibley, purportedly abusing her. She also made a fair number of attacks on Mormons in the book. This was basically a place to collect mainstream media reviews of the book, correct a few errors, and deal with the controversy. Just prior to the book's release Nibley died and we dealt with that a little as well. Leaving the Saints is thus a little ecclectic. But we still get a lot of Google hits that go here.

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