Episode 74: Defining Church Doctrine (Michael Goodman)

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Elder Robert D. Hales taught, “We need to know the official doctrine of the Church so we are not diverted from Christ’s leadership.” But how can we know what constitutes Church doctrine? That has been the driving question behind the research of Professor Michael Goodman of BYU’s Church History and Doctrine department. In this podcast, he shares how church doctrine has been defined historically and highlights three specific criteria prophets, seers and revelators have consistently used to define it over the last four decades.

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0:00.0	Hi there, wire religion listeners, Professor Anthony Sway here from B.W. Church History
0:03.8	and Dr. and welcome to another great episode of the Wire religion podcast.
0:07.6	Over my many years of teaching, I've heard a lot of different questions surrounding
0:12.2	church doctrine.
0:14.4	Some general questions I hear go something like this.
0:18.3	If God is unchanging and truth is eternal, then why have some of the churches teachings
0:23.4	changed over time?
0:25.9	Or maybe questions like this.
0:28.3	Why don't we still teach, fill in the blank of whatever teaching it is, like the early
0:32.4	church taught?
0:33.8	Were they wrong for teaching that or are we wrong since that emphasis has now gone away?
0:39.4	Or this is one of my personal favorites.
0:41.5	I once heard that, fill in the name of a general authority here, said that, fill in a reported
0:47.0	teaching here.
0:48.4	So that makes it church doctrine, right?
0:50.9	Well, is that how doctrine is determined?
0:55.0	How can we differentiate between an official position of the church and an individual opinion
1:00.1	of one of its leaders?
1:01.8	How do we handle statements by general authorities from the past that may seem to contradict
1:06.5	current ones in the present?
1:09.1	These and many other questions often come up surrounding church doctrine.
1:14.0	In 2016, it were these kind of questions that led myself together with my church history
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