Today, I read a volume by H. Curtis Wright, Things of Redeeming Worth: Scriptural Messages and World Messages (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2002), which is also available online here. The essays are all good, and one that really stood out for me, however, was one on Brigham Young's anthropology (theology of man):
Brigham Young and the Natural Man
I, too, discussed Brigham's comments on this issue, as found in JOD 9:305, in response to the Tanners:
Answering the Tanners' Misrepresentation of Brigham Young on the “natural man”
H. Curtis Wright wrote another book that is also one should also pursue:
Modern Presentism and Ancient Metallic Epigraphy (Salt Lake City: Wings of Fire Press, 2002)
The volume has many insights into the ancient practice of writing on metal plates and related topics, something other LDS scholars have discussed, too (e.g., John A. Tvedtnes, The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books [Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000]--another must-read, by the way, and which is available for free on the Book of Mormon Central Website)
Brigham Young and the Natural Man
I, too, discussed Brigham's comments on this issue, as found in JOD 9:305, in response to the Tanners:
Answering the Tanners' Misrepresentation of Brigham Young on the “natural man”
H. Curtis Wright wrote another book that is also one should also pursue:
Modern Presentism and Ancient Metallic Epigraphy (Salt Lake City: Wings of Fire Press, 2002)
The volume has many insights into the ancient practice of writing on metal plates and related topics, something other LDS scholars have discussed, too (e.g., John A. Tvedtnes, The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books [Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000]--another must-read, by the way, and which is available for free on the Book of Mormon Central Website)
