New BYU/CES Religious Curriculum

[falafel]

I actually learned a lot more about Job when I took a "Bible as Literature", which was in the English department, rather than than religious education.

Hey, I had that class too! My grade was based almost entirely on 4 term papers. I got an A on each of them, but then somehow got an A- in the class. I tried for weeks to track down the professor for an explanation, but he avoided me. I'm still pissed about it.

[Walter Sobchak]

Did taking that class fulfill your religion credit requirement? I'm confused.

[falafel]

Did taking that class fulfill your religion credit requirement? I'm confused.

No, it was an English class. It fulfilled a credit for my major.

[Sullyute]

Because they knew Utah would offer this class 65 years after they graduated?

There's a reason they are called prophets, SEERS, and revelators!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Prooftexting. That's rich, coming from Hamblin and his entourage.

Hamblin follows up with a rant against both CES and liberal mormons. What strange bedfellows!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmat...izing-impulse/

Starting to hear rumors of what is coming in the next journal issue from the new Maxwell Institute. If what I am hearing is correct, Hamblin and Daniel Peterson may spontaneously combust. Should be fun to witness the drama.

[Solon]

Excellent post, Clark.

Yes, well done Clark.

The constant need to validate & defend the status quo is one of the more uncomfortable elements of Mormonism. It's one of the more culty things about the church.

This de-emphasis on the actual texts has happened in secular parts of the Academy too. Often, students aren't really asked to read anything in its entirety anymore. It's all about the excerpts, or even the summaries. I know several History professors who don't require students to read primary sources, just a textbook and maybe a historical novel or something.

Twitter & Facebook haven't helped students' ability to work through dense material either.

With respect to the new curriculum, wouldn't a more prudent approach be to offer both kinds of classes? Why abandon one altogether?

For all of the huffing & puffing from the faculty, in the end, it's the students' loss I guess.

[jay santos]

I used to think it was too bad we only studied New Testament once every four years. I really don't know what this change means yet, but I hope it doesn't mean we do it less.

[Northwestcoug]

Hamblin follows up with a rant against both CES and liberal mormons. What strange bedfellows!

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/enigmat...izing-impulse/

Starting to hear rumors of what is coming in the next journal issue from the new Maxwell Institute. If what I am hearing is correct, Hamblin and Daniel Peterson may spontaneously combust. Should be fun to witness the drama.

I don't understand all his angst, except for his bitterness over the Maxwell Institute drama. He's a history professor, so I assume he can see the danger of prooftexting in his profession. But as far as church education goes, there's been a fair amount of it as long as I can recall. There are whole doctrines based on narrow interpretations of single scriptures.

Maybe he would be more supporting of the new curriculum if the authors could work in various 'butthead' insults in the text.

[pellegrino]

Now that he and DP have been ousted as defenders of the faith everyone is an enemy