I have been studying Mormonism since 1987. Like anything else I study in depth, I try to acquire the necessary resources to do so in a scholarly fashion. My Mormon related resources have expanded to over 1,800 non-digital books; collections of the Ensign, BYU Studies, Dialogue, and Sunstone journals/magazines; most of what F.A.R.M.S and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute have produced; and a very large, uncounted digital collection. Anyway, my study of Mormonism has been anything but superficial.
However, it
has been a good 4+ years since I last did any sustained research into the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and this primarily due to my focus on the
development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the early Church—but I will more
than likely jump back into my Mormon studies with a renewed interest (for a
number of reasons).
Last month,
I got involved in thread at the Mormon Dialogue & Discussion Board,
under the title: What's
Up With The Trinity. A new set of LDS missionaries had dropped by
earlier that day, and we got into a discussion about the Trinity. That evening,
I checked in on MDDB, and the above thread caught my eye. I did not
get involved in the thread until the 3rd day, with my 1st comment being #63 (LINK). The thread ended up with 336 comments, involving Catholics, Evangelicals,
Mormons and even a Muslim, covering a fairly wide range of aspects concerning
the doctrine of the Trinity.
Though
I had wanted to bring this thread to the attention of my readers towards the
end of July, I got a bit side-tracked with the Trent related threads here at AF
, summer guests and outdoor projects. But as the old saying goes, 'better
late than never'.
In
the month of September, I hope to build upon some of the issues raised in the above thread, as well as other topics, as I renew and ramp up my studies into
Mormonism (the Lord willing)...
Grace
and peace,
