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Godsplaining

The Mormon View of God w/ Francis Beckwith

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Bonaventure and Fr. Patrick welcomes author Professor Francis Beckwith on this week's Guestsplaining episode to discuss the radically different beliefs between Christianity and Mormonism. What does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints believe? What makes Mormonism quintessentially American? What do the last days and end times look like according to Mormonism? What can we learn from followers of the the LDS church?  Find Professor Francis Beckwith's new book entitled, "A Catholic Engagement With Latter Day Saints," here: https://ignatius.com/a-catholic-engagement-with-latter-day-saints-celdsp/ His website can be found here: https://sites.baylor.edu/francisbeckwith/ Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsSt. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0

This is Father Bonimedger Chapman.

0:07.8

And this is Father Patrick Griscoe.

0:10.4

And welcome to God's Plaining.

0:11.4

Thanks to all those who support us.

0:12.7

If you enjoy the show, please consider making a monthly donation on Patreon.

0:16.1

Be sure to like and subscribe to God's Planning wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:20.5

This is a guest-splaining episode, and we are very delighted to welcome Professor Francis Beckwith.

0:26.7

Professor Beckwith, welcome.

0:28.5

Great to be here. Thanks for having me.

0:30.4

Okay, well, I know you're going to do a little introduction as well, or you'll be able to fill this in.

0:33.5

But for those of you don't know you, you are prolific, I have to say.

0:41.7

Lots of books and lots of articles, but Dr. Beth Beckwith is the professor of philosophy and church state studies at Baylor University, where he serves the associate director of the

0:46.9

graduate program in philosophy and resident scholar in Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion.

0:53.3

You have many books published, including your convert, of course, out of Catholicism.

0:59.2

And you also have a book, one of these, there's a ton of these things that you can mention, whichever.

1:03.3

But the one that might be interesting to our listeners as well, of the one we're going to talk about, is one in 2019 called Never Doubt Thomas,

1:14.4

the Catholic Aquinas as evangelical and Protestant.

1:15.8

That's always great to hear.

1:18.9

And the book we're talking about, your more than your more recent books,

1:20.8

the one we're talking about here for Ignatius Press,

1:24.4

is a Catholic engagement with Latter Day Saints.

1:26.5

And this is something in edited collection,

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