Briefly Mosiah, with James E. Faulconer [MIPodcast #106]
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4.7 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This episode continues our special series of episodes on the Maxwell Institute’s brief theological introductions to the Book of Mormon. In his book on Mosiah, philosopher and theologian James E. Faulconer untangles a complicated narrative—a fragmentary history about a fragmented people, written by a record keeper obsessed with unity. Faulconer unpacks what King Benjamin had in mind in speaking of the “mysteries of God.”
About the Guest James E. Faulconer is a professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University and a senior research fellow at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Faulconer’s area of expertise is twentieth-century and contemporary European philosophy, especially the philosophy of religion. In addition to writing scholarly books and articles, he is the author of the Made Harder series of scripture study questions and Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Maxwell Institute podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Blair Hodges. |
| 0:05.0 | How's everybody doing? |
| 0:06.0 | I hope everyone's staying safe and healthy as COVID-19 continues its global disruption. |
| 0:11.0 | For this episode, I actually traveled down to Provo to talk with James E. Faulkner about his book, Mosaic, a brief theological introduction. |
| 0:18.0 | I just finished recording the episode, then editing it. |
| 0:24.5 | Now I'm putting on the finishing touches alone here in BYU's Clyde Building, |
| 0:28.9 | the Institute's temporary but extremely empty home. |
| 0:31.2 | And this episode continues our series, |
| 0:35.6 | featuring authors of the Institute's brief theological introductions to the Book of Mormon series. You can learn more about that series at our website, |
| 0:38.1 | m.I.bYu.edu.edu slash brief. It's philosophy professor James E. Faulkner talking about |
| 0:43.9 | Mosiah. You can send me your questions and comments. The address is MI Podcast at BYU.edu. |
| 0:53.2 | You can hear a truck passing by right now. |
| 0:55.2 | That's because me and James E. Faulkner are outside today in Provo. |
| 1:00.3 | We're going to let it pass. |
| 1:02.1 | I think we'll keep this in, give people a sense of what we're dealing with here. |
| 1:07.2 | But we're here on campus at Brigham Young University, |
| 1:10.0 | staying socially distanced for the most part away from each other, wiping down the equipment with disinfectant and things like that. Jim, thanks for taking the time to do this today. |
| 1:20.4 | Glad to do it. |
| 1:21.4 | We're going to be talking about Mosiah, and this is the eighth book in the Book of Mormon. |
| 1:26.7 | But as we were reminded in our discussion with Sharon Harris about Enos Jerman Omni, |
| 1:31.8 | the original beginning to the Book of Mormon has been lost. |
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