Maxwell Institute Podcast #178: Divine Aid (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants) with Amy Easton

Maxwell Institute Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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I'm delighted to share with you an interview with Dr. Amy Easton, who authored the volume Divine Aid in our new Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants series. Amy is an associate professor of ancient scripture at BYU, where she also teaches in the global women's studies and American studies programs. Amy did her graduate work in literature, just like I did, and in addition to her work on the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants, she studies topics as diverse as 19th-century women's poetry and transatlantic travel literature. At the time of this recording, Amy was directing a study abroad program in London and we're grateful that she could join us despite having only a laptop to record on. Amy's book, Divine Aid, is all about the relationship Jesus wants to build with each of us. The Doctrine and Covenants shows us the Savior working in real time to build a parent-child relationship with real individuals.

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0:00.0	From Brigham Young University's Maxwell Institute, this is the Maxwell Institute,
0:12.0	Faith, Illuminating, Scholarship.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Rosalind Welch.
0:17.9	Today on the questions we should be asking, I have for you an interview with
0:22.1	Dr. Amy Easton, author of a new book out from the Maxwell Institute. First, though, I wanted to let
0:28.7	you know about a great resource for accessing Maxwell Institute resources online at a website
0:34.6	called BYU Scholars Archive. This archive is hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library called BYU Scholars Archive.
0:43.9	This archive is hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU, and it contains a number of past titles published by the Maxwell Institute, including some of our living faith titles, and
0:49.9	special favorites of mine, several books on scripture study by our former colleague James Faulkner,
0:56.4	including his Scriptures Made Harder series. Now, this archive does not have our complete catalog,
1:03.5	but it does have a lot of great material, and it's all online and free. We hope you'll buy our
1:10.3	books when you can so that we can keep publishing them.
1:13.3	But when you can't, check out what's available on Scholars Archive.
1:17.8	You can find the website by Googling BYU Scholars Archive Maxwell Institute or by going to
1:25.6	scholarsarchive.b.b.edu.edu slash MI. And now I'm delighted to share with you an
1:34.1	interview with Dr. Amy Easton, who authored the volume Divine Aid in our new themes in the Doctrine
1:40.7	and Covenants series. Amy is an associate professor of ancient scripture at BYU, where she also teaches in the Doctrine and Covenants series. Amy is an associate professor of ancient scripture at
1:45.5	BYU, where she also teaches in the global women's studies and American Studies programs.
1:51.3	Amy did her graduate work in literature, just like I did, and in addition to her work on the
1:56.3	Book of Mormon and the Doctrine in Covenants, she studies topics as diverse as 19th century women's
2:02.4	poetry and transatlantic travel literature. At the time of this recording, Amy was directing a
2:09.3	study abroad program in London and were grateful that she could join us despite having only a
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