By J StuartAugust 15, 2024
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The Church History in the Pacific and Asia Conference (CHPAC) is a joint effort between the BYU-Hawaii Faculty of Religious Education and Faculty of Culture, Language, & Performing Arts. CHPAC encourages scholars and amateur historians alike to research, preserve, and disseminate the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Pacific and Asia. The CHPAC provides a venue for presentations of that research and CHPAC committee members develop and pursue opportunities to publish and disseminate said research to a broader audience.
The 2025 conference will focus on places of gathering and refuge for Latter-day Saints in Asia and the Pacific.
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By Steve FlemingAugust 13, 2024
So as part of this larger series (1, 2, 3, 4) I started a while back on this blog about what I see as scholarly principles, I was thinking of eventually getting to the question of the Book of Mormon’s historicity.
Often when dealing with religious history, there is a (debated) school of thought that scholars should bracket out supernatural truth claims. But as often noted, the Book of Mormon isn’t wholly transcendent: Smith claimed it came from a a physical object that a handful of people claimed to have seen and touched, and Smith said it was the source of a translation claiming to be about ancient history in the Americas.
Both such claims (plates and historical record) are intrusions from the purely transcendent in the physical world, and both of these intrusions do allow for historical examination.
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Steve Fleming on BH Roberts on Plato: “Interesting, Jack. But just to reiterate, I think JS saw the SUPPRESSION of Platonic ideas as creating the loss of truth and not the addition.…”
Jack on BH Roberts on Plato: “Thanks for your insights--you've really got me thinking. I can't get away from the notion that the formation of the Great and Abominable church was an…”
Steve Fleming on BH Roberts on Plato: “In the intro to DC 76 in JS's 1838 history, JS said, "From sundry revelations which had been received, it was apparent that many important…”
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