Reason After Authority
Over at Mormon Metaphysics Clark has a great post worth reading about how much of the discussion surrounding the nature of truth can be replaced by a discussion regarding how to adjudicate...
View ArticleTokens and Signs vs. Evidence and Reason
The story of Adam and Eve is about as anti-intellectual as they come. When confronted by teachers they did not ask for evidence or reasoned justifications that might support an abstract proposition or...
View ArticleSources of Legitimacy
In this post I wanted to briefly sketch out some of my own thoughts and taxonomies regarding how we go about legitimizing claims and positions. I realize that the distinctions I make aren’t all that...
View ArticleKierkegaard, Abraham and Isaac
Clark has mentioned in a couple threads how he thinks my position is very similar to that of Soren Kierkegaard. There are several important parallels between Kierkegaard’s thinking and my own, but...
View ArticleMedical Doctors and Priesthood Leaders
[Jesus’ cures for medical illnesses] are all miraculous, and the same power was granted to the apostles—”power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, to heal all manner of sickness and all manner...
View ArticleLiberty within the Scriptures
If you have not done so already, I strongly recommend that anybody interested in social or political thinking go and read Isaiah Berlin’s classic: Two Concepts of Liberty. Within this paper he lists 4...
View ArticleThe Non-issue of Biblical Literalism
Following Clark, I’ll link to Danial McClellan’s post On the Myth of Scriptural Literalism. In that post, the author reviews Sam Harris’ attacks against religion by undermining Harris’ use of...
View ArticleDiscipline and Punish; Mercy and Justice
The modern mind struggles to make sense of the atonement. At least mine does. The Book of Mormon insists that because of the atonement, mercy can potentially be extended to us sinners without...
View ArticleAlso Sprachen Die Propheten: A Faithful Nietzsche
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time… But I say unto you..” “Nevertheless, it is not written that there shall be no end to this torment, but it is written endless torment… For, behold, I...
View ArticleGrace, Faith and “Loyal Opposition”
Grace without hierarchy is meaningless. I wish to unpack this claim using (while at the same time taking very large liberties with) Alexis de Tocqueville’s contrast between the paternalism of the...
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