1657: A Scholarly Defense of Faithful Mormonism - Patrick Mason Pt 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 203 minutes
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Summary
Join us today for part 2 of our interview with faithful Mormon scholar Dr. Patrick Mason. In part 2 John and Margi discuss with Patrick his approach to thoughtful, faithful Mormonism as a scholar of Mormon Studies. Patrick Q. Mason holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at USU. He has written or edited several books, including Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict (Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book, 2021); Mormonism and Violence: The Battles of Zion (Cambridge University Press, 2019); What Is Mormonism? A Student's Introduction (Routledge, 2017); Out of Obscurity: Mormonism since 1945, co-edited with John Turner (Oxford University Press, 2016); Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century (University of Utah Press, 2016); and The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (Oxford University Press, 2011). He was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania in 2015 and is a past president of the Mormon History Association. Professor Mason is frequently consulted by the national and international media on stories related to Mormon culture and history. He teaches courses on Mormonism, American religious history, and religion, violence, and peacebuilding.
1656-1658: A Scholarly Defense of Mormonism - Patrick Mason
Patrick Mason
- Patrick Mason (@patrickqmason) / Twitter
- Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt
- Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict
- Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century World
- Patrick Mason’s other books
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your hosts for today John |
| 0:05.2 | Delin. It's September 6th, 2022. I'm here with my partner in righteousness Margie. Hey Margie. |
| 0:12.9 | Glad to have you here. Glad to be here. You have fun today. Yes. We have the Patrick Q Mason in the house. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey Patrick. Hey. There aren't that many other Patrick Q Mason's especially. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, we just spent a good three hours with Patrick. I won't reintroduce him. Please pause this |
| 0:32.1 | episode if you haven't watched part one. Go back and listen. We spent three hours talking about |
| 0:36.3 | Patrick's Mormon upbringing, his Mormon story, his mission, his marriage, his pursuit of Mormon studies |
| 0:43.3 | as a historian and how he kind of got into the Mormon studies field and then eventually his reaction |
| 0:48.8 | to a lot of the evolution of Mormon thought and Mormon discourse. We covered all of that in more |
| 0:55.7 | in part one and I really loved it. How you feeling Patrick? I'm feeling great. Just had a good sandwich. |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, you know, what's there to complain about? Exactly. Life is good. All right. So we planned |
| 1:06.9 | on a part two and a part three. Now we're going to do a deep dive. I have, I don't know, 15 pages |
| 1:12.8 | worth of questions. Not only that I came up with, but that a lot of my viewers and listeners, |
| 1:19.1 | as someone of my very close friends have made, I do want to make sure and mention that the original |
| 1:24.1 | impetus for this interview, for me at least, was this amazing book restoration. God's call to the 21st |
| 1:30.6 | century world by Patrick Mason. I started it a year or however to ago. I finished it this morning, |
| 1:39.0 | but I did read the whole thing and probably five or six pages of my notes or detailed notes on |
| 1:44.3 | this book. It's a short book. It shouldn't take you a year to read. No. We had a disruption. |
| 1:50.0 | We had a slight disruption. We had a little disruption. I read enough to look. I'm ready to |
| 1:54.0 | interview Patrick. You know, I'll finish it once we book it. We got sidetracked. Anyway, |
| 1:58.9 | it's a great book. If I can endorse this, I don't know if that's good or bad. It's |
| 2:03.2 | average on the live endorsement on a book. But like, I think this book would do very good things for |
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