Hi, my friends, Professor Anthony Swat here from B.O.U. Church History and Doctrine.

Welcome to another episode of the Why Religion Podcast.

It's likely that most everyone listening has heard of the name Hugh Nibbley.

He is one of the most well-known academic figures in the history of the church after a nearly

50-year career as a professor at Brigham Young University.

He is also one of the most prolific writers and published authors in the history of the

church.

With his 19 volume, the collected works of Hugh Nibbley, standing as a testament to his

lifetime of scholarship and publishing, his final book in that series called One Eternal

Round, is considered by many to be his magnum opus.

Dr. Nibbley was an adamant defender of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, I might add, and the veracity of the

Book of Mormon.

Nibbley considered Nibbley to be the father of Latter-day Saint Apologetics and using scholarship

to defend the Church.

When Fawn Brody wrote her psychoanalytic biography of Joseph Smith, titled No Man Knows My History,

Nibbley responded with an intellectual assault in a response that he titled No Man That's Not History.

Nibbley, however, was quick to critique aspects of Latter-day Saint culture and practices

that he felt were inconsistent with scriptural concepts.

He was strongly opposed to materialism and was very pointed towards some Latter-day Saints

pursuit of wealth and glory at the expense of being fully consecrated.

Just read some of his comments on that in his book Approaching Zion.

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