"Books contain a deadly and secret poison. Many a young man has been destroyed by reading a single volume." No, that's not a quote from a recent General Conference; it was written in 1829, warning young Englishmen about the dangers of reading scholarly analyses of Christian history and doctrine. The quote is the first paragraph in a short CT essay entitled The Power of Books, highlighting the struggles of 19th-century Victorians with higher criticism and with evolution. The Victorian debate sounds surprisingly similar to the ongoing dialogue between apologists and religious liberals within the LDS Church. Will Mormonism, too, split into fundamentalist/conservative and liberal camps? If it did, which would you follow?
[Note: Busy, busy. Light blogging for another week.]
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