Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Keywords
FARMS Review, autobiography, Book of Mormon
Abstract
The latest issue of the FARMS Review (vol. 17, no. 1) is now available, offering its usual in-depth, incisive commentary on an array of recent publications and topics of interest to Latter-day Saint readers.
This is the first issue published since Hugh Nibley’s death earlier this year, and Louis Midgley’s tribute to this illustrious Latter-day Saint scholar has already proved to be one of the more popular contributions. The essay is essentially an intellectual autobiography in which Midgley (BYU professor emeritus of political science and associate editor of the Review) tells of his first encounter with Nib-ley, in 1949; his subsequent studies under Sterling McMurrin, a prominent philosophy professor at the University of Utah who dismissed the Book of Mormon out of hand; his dissertation on the work of theologian Paul Tillich, who viewed God not as a personality but as the ultimate ground of being; and of Nibley’s profound influence.
Recommended Citation
(2005)
"FARMS Review Takes Up Nibley, DNA, Book of Mormon Origins,"
Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 25:
No.
6, Article 2.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol25/iss6/2