MIPodcast #124—’Thinking Otherwise,’ with James E. Faulconer and Morgan Davis

Maxwell Institute Podcast

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

James E. Faulconer has spent his career enriching the scripture study of Latter-day Saints, offering powerful tools to improve engagement with the word of God. His latest book continues that project. Thinking Otherwise: Theological Explorations of Joseph Smith’s Revelations. It’s the latest volume in the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith book series.

Our guest host today is Dr. Morgan Davis, co-editor of the Living Faith series.

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. I'm Blair Hodges.
0:04.2	No Latter-day Saint has enriched my personal scripture study more than Dr. James E. Faulkner,
0:08.2	a philosopher, theologian, and research fellow here at the Neely Maxwell Institute.
0:12.4	From his old book simply called Scripture Study to his Scriptures Made Harder series,
0:16.8	Dr. Faulkner has given Latter-day Saints powerful tools to improve our engagement with the Word of God.
0:21.5	And his latest book continues that project. It's called Thinking Otherwise, Theological Explorations of Joseph Smith's Revelations.
0:28.2	It's the latest volume in the Maxwell Institute's Living Faith book series.
0:31.8	And so, our guest host today is Dr. Morgan Davis, co-editor of the Living Faith series.
0:36.5	He's more familiar with Dr. Faulkner's latest book than most anyone could be.
0:40.1	You can learn more about the new book at bit.lea slash thinking otherwise.
0:44.5	Questions and comments about this and other episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast
0:48.0	can be sent to me at MIPodcast at BYU.edu.
0:52.1	And now it's Morgan Davis speaking with James E. Faulkner
0:55.0	about his new book, Thinking Otherwise.
0:57.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast.
1:01.0	I'm Morgan Davis.
1:02.0	I'm a research fellow here at the Nele Maxwell Institute.
1:06.0	And it's my great pleasure today to have James Faulkner here, the author of Thinking Otherwise,
1:12.9	the latest title in our Living Faith series that I am privileged to be a co-editor of with Miranda
1:21.3	Wilcox.
1:22.3	Jim, welcome.
1:23.2	Thank you.
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