Oh Heck Yeah

[Hamilton Porter]

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Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: The Mormon Ecumenical Moment

Ch. 1: Mormon Envy

Ch. 2: The Magic of Being Mormon

Ch. 3: What's Up with Mormons and Matter?

Ch. 4: Branches on the Family Tree: Relatives or Impersonators?

Ch. 5: Mormon Overreach? Brigham Young and Parley Pratt

Ch. 6: How to Heal Modernity's Spiritual Breakdown

Ch. 7: Two Decisions

Appendix A: Two Theological Problems that Mormonism Solves

Appendix B: Some Puzzles Regarding Thomas Aquinas's Understanding of Matter

Appendix C: Three Philosophical Problems that Mormonism Needs to Solve Sources and Suggested Reading Acknowledgments

Index

[nealr]

This looks very interesting. The name Stephen Webb is vaguely familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. Does anybody know anything about him?

[Hamilton Porter]

This looks very interesting. The name Stephen Webb is vaguely familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. Does anybody know anything about him?

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/01/mormonism-obsessed-with-christ

[Questing Beast]

I like the "grandfather's funeral stories" analogy.

"In Jerusalem", he boo booed the same way: it reads "at Jerusalem ... the land of our forefathers", which includes Bethlehem, only six miles away.

We wear "sacred garments" for more reasons than that "our bodies are literally temples of the divine". In fact, I had never seen it put quite that way, and I like it better than as some kind of aegis against the evil one.

The conclusion is first rate. "Either or" choices make things so much clearer....

[nealr]

http://www.firstthin...sed-with-christ

Thanks. This is very cool, and I can see why you are excited for the book.

[cinepro]

http://www.firstthin...sed-with-christ

Interesting observation...

This should not be taken lightly. The Mormon metaphysic calls for the revision of nearly every Christian belief. Still, not all heresies are equally perilous. If Gnosticism is the paradigmatic modern temptation—spiritualizing Jesus by turning him into a subjective experience—Mormonism runs in the exact opposite direction. If you had to choose between a Jesus whose body is eternal and a Jesus whose divinity is trivial (as in many modern theological portraits), I hope it would be an easy choice.

[RBoylan]

His book on Heavenly Flesh Christology was an excellent text, as was his interaction with Latter-day Saint Christology, and I highly recommend it. This, no doubt, will be an excellent text, too.

[Robert F. Smith]

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I believe that he is Roman Catholic. See Stephen H. Webb, “Talking with Mormons: A Catholic looks at a Calvinist looking at Mormonism,” May 17, 2012, review of Richard J. Mouw, Talking with the Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals (Eerdmans, 2012), online at http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/webexclusives/2012/may/talkingmormons.html .

[Hamilton Porter]

I believe that he is Roman Catholic. See Stephen H. Webb, “Talking with Mormons: A Catholic looks at a Calvinist looking at Mormonism,” May 17, 2012, review of Richard J. Mouw, Talking with the Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals (Eerdmans, 2012), online at http://www.booksandc...ingmormons.html .

Of course he is, you should have bought Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter a long time ago.

[DanielRodrick]

This is really intriguing. I don't know how I managed to miss the fact that Stephen Webb even existed . Here I was thinking that I was relatively staying up to date on interesting things going on. I absolutely love it when someone actually takes Mormonism seriously enough to respectfully engage it. Reminds me of Krister Stendahl's point on "holy envy." Anyway, I hope the book comes out before I leave on my mission. If its good, I might buy an extra copy to have one to hand out to one of my numerous southern evangelical friends .