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English
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The Sidney Sperry/Heber Snell Debates: Critical Biblical Scholarship and Mormon Tradition
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2022
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55
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Dialogue Foundation
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"Sperry and Snell were the first active Mormon scholars to obtain PhDs in biblical studies, both from the University of Chicago in 1931 and 1940, respectively. Both were highly respected college instructors in the Church Educational System throughout most of their careers. Church leaders requested both to author an Old Testament textbook for use in the Church’s institutes of higher education, works intended to exemplify the best scholarship adapted to a Mormon context. Yet, Sperry and Snell disagreed over how such a project would be best accomplished. Their disputes exposed many important questions and methodological issues that needed addressing for such a task to succeed. In this study, we will examine some of the disputes that Sperry and Snell chose to address, their suggested approaches, and how these fared. I argue that, although presenting significant challenges, the work of Sperry and Snell show us that the integration of critical biblical scholarship and Mormon tradition is possible and helpful, at least for some disputes, and that their pioneering efforts are worth continuing." [Author]
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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
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Faith and History : The Snell Controversy
Materialism and Mormonism : The Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Dr. John A. Widtsoe
Modernism and Mormonism : James E. Talmage's Jesus the Christ and Early Twentieth Century Mormon Responses to Biblical Criticism
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons at the University of Chicago Divinity School : A Personal Reminiscence
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Chicago Experiment : Finding the Voice and Charting the Course of Religious Education in the Church
The Founding of the L.D.S. Institutes of Religion
The Problem of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
The Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Mormon
"Upon All the Ships of the Sea, and Upon All the Ships of Tarshish" : Revisiting 2 Nephi 12 : 16 and Isaiah 2 : 16
W. H. Chamberlin and the Quest for a Mormon Theology
William H. Chamberlin, Pioneer Mormon Philosopher
"Without a Cause" and "Ships of Tarshish" : A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith