Top 10 LDS "Intellectuals"

[CardiacCoug]

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/168/1...-Ericksen.html

A few things I noticed:

They put "intellectuals" in quotation marks. Seems odd.

The Deseret News is really going downhill. This list is pretty bizarre, but at least they put Sterling McMurrin and BH Roberts in it. I love Lowell Bennion, but he was not an intellectual -- just an incredibly good person.

So was Joseph Smith an uneducated farm boy or was he an "intellectual"? I thought his lack of education/sophistication was part of the argument for the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

[myboynoah]

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/168/1...-Ericksen.html

A few things I noticed:

They put "intellectuals" in quotation marks. Seems odd.

The Deseret News is really going downhill. This list is pretty bizarre, but at least they put Sterling McMurrin and BH Roberts in it. I love Lowell Bennion, but he was not an intellectual -- just an incredibly good person.

So was Joseph Smith an uneducated farm boy or was he an "intellectual"? I thought his lack of education/sophistication was part of the argument for the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon.

Joseph Smith's inclusion is indeed odd.

[SCcoug]

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/168/1...-Ericksen.html


They put "intellectuals" in quotation marks. Seems odd.

Just be glad it wasn't "pseudo-intellectuals".

[Babs]

Are there no living intellectuals?

[New Mexican Disaster]

Are there no living intellectuals?

Goatnapper.

[Moliere]

Are there no living intellectuals?

They all got ex'd in the 90s.

[CardiacCoug]

Are there no living intellectuals?

A few of these people would probably count.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/

People like Clayton Christensen and maybe somebody like Nate Oman of the younger generation are pretty darn intellectual.

[jay santos]

A few of these people would probably count.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/

People like Clayton Christensen and maybe somebody like Nate Oman of the younger generation are pretty darn intellectual.

That list would be better if they took out this one.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/151...l-c-peterson-2

[CardiacCoug]

That list would be better if they took out this one.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/151...l-c-peterson-2

Yeah, I think it defeats the purpose of the website for them to really put any current BYU professors on the site and Dan Peterson is not one of my favorites.

I mean a BYU professor loses his job if he loses his testimony. That kind of conflict of interest should be taken into account and should probably be explicitly stated.

[YOhio]

Thanks for that Mormon Scholars link. The Armand Mauss essay was fantastic.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/624/armand-l-mauss

[YOhio]

This guy is great, too. I didn't really read his testimony, but the haircut speaks for itself. We need more with his style.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1779/dula-parkinson

[CardiacCoug]

Thanks for that Mormon Scholars link. The Armand Mauss essay was fantastic.

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/624/armand-l-mauss

Yeah, I really like what he wrote and that was one of the first ones I read. It starts out awesome with his backhanded dig at people in his ward who "know" everything when they bear testimony. And then this line is good (I was going to post above that Joseph Smith was a genius, but not an intellectual).

Such a revered academic intellectual as Harold Bloom attributes Joseph’s accomplishments, including the Book of Mormon, to “genius.” To me, that’s as close as a secular explanation can come to “divine origin,” to which I would testify.

[Viking]

My uncle kicked them all out

[CardiacCoug]

Here's another good one. Just seems very smart and sincere and he's not claiming to know too much:

http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2436/john-bennion

[marsupial]

He was one of my favorite professors at BYU:
http://mormonscholarstestify.org/2358/r-kirk-belnap