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Saints and Bodhisattvas: Mortal Human Messianicity in Mormonism and Mahayana Buddhism

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Seth Payne

In a previous post I reviewed Jad Hatem’s Postponing Heaven, recently published in English by BYU’s Maxwell Institute. Hatem sets out to draw parallels between Mormonism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Islam by examining how each tradition expresses what Hatem terms “human … Continue reading →

Posted in Mormon Studies | Tagged buddhism, human messianicity

Book Review: Postponing Heaven

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Seth Payne

Hatem, Jad. Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi. Translated by Jonathon Penny. Provo UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2015. BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute recently re-published a work by Lebanese … Continue reading →

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Denver Snuffer and an Emerging Mormon Mysticism

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Seth Payne

Tim Malone was a long-time member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Latter-day Saint who served as a member of the Stake High Council, went on a mission, and was married in the Temple. From all … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Personal Narrative, Theology | Tagged denver snuffer, Mysticism

Faith & Knowledge Conference CFP

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Seth Payne

I am very happy to announce the 5th biennial Faith & Knowledge Conference to be held at the University of Virginia February 27-29, 2015.  The CFP may be found here: http://www.faithandknowledge.org/ The first F&K conference, held in 2007 at Yale … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Discourse, Conferences

Genesis of Doubt

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Seth Payne

Matthew 7:7–11 (NRSV)  “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal Narrative | Tagged doubt

Inverting Jesus: Protecting the Ninety-Nine

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Seth Payne

In the 15th chapter of the Gospel of Luke Jesus relays a very simple, yet beautiful, parable: 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, History, Personal Narrative

Can’t we all just get along?

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Seth Payne

This year I have had the enlightening opportunity to attend three Mormon-themed conferences. Each conference afforded me the opportunity to meet with, and mingle, with Latter-day Saints of all stripes from traditional believers to those who have chosen to resign … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Personal Narrative

Wealth Disparity and Social Decline: Perspectives from the Book of Mormon

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Seth Payne

One of the Book of Mormon’s most distinctive features is its presentation of the “pride cycle” as a type of meta-narrative that describes how societies rise to prosperity through humility and righteousness, become convinced that this prosperity is the result … Continue reading →

Posted in Mormon Studies, Politics | Tagged economics, wealth

Overcoming Correlation or Mormon Studies and Pastoral Care

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Seth Payne

My introduction to Mormon Studies came in graduate school. I am quite embarrassed to say that before this time I had not seriously read Mormon Studies and my impressions of Dialogue and Sunstone were, if anything, somewhat negative (How can … Continue reading →

Posted in Mormon Studies, Personal Narrative | Tagged pastoral care

A Book Review of “Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology”

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Seth Payne

Miller, Adam S. Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology. Draper: Greg Kofford Books, 2012. —— A comically involved, complicated invention, laboriously contrived to perform a simple operation. —“Rube Goldberg,” Webster’s New World Dictionary When one thinks of theology, rarely … Continue reading →

Posted in Theology | Tagged adam miller

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