Remembrance and Return — Essays in Honor of Louis C. Midgley

Edited by Ted Vaggalis and Daniel C. Peterson

Louis C. Midgley

Jointly published by The Interpreter Foundation, Orem Utah
and Eborn Books, Salt Lake City, Utah

Softbound edition available now from Eborn Books

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Preface – Ted Vaggalis
A Giving of Accounts – Louis Midgley

Personal Appreciation

Louis Midgley: His Children’s Perspective – Sarah Midgley Cope
Appreciating Lou Midgley: A Seminar in Spring Semester 1970 – C. Randall Paul
Lou the Mean – William Hamblin

Political Philosophy and Hermeneutics

The Theoretical Implications of Aristotle’s Critique of the Best Regimes of the Past – Thomas L. Pangle
Thomas Hobbes’s A Discourse of Law – Noel B. Reynolds
Paul Ricoeur on Scripture – James E. Faulconer
The Problem of Socrates and the First Question of Philosophy – Ted Vaggalis

Teachings of the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon as a Resurrected Book and a Type of Christ – George L. Mitton
Memory and Identity in the Book of Mormon – Steven L. Olsen
Moroni’s Courage: Cultural Devastation, Radical Hope, and the Book of Mormon – Gregory L. Smith
Revisiting Remembrance – Gary F. Novak

Defending the Authenticity of Modern Scripture

Exposing Book of Mormon Plagiarism: A Proposed Solution to the Book’s Authorship – John E. Clark
Isaac Russell and the 1912–1913 Book of Abraham Controversy – Matthew Roper
The Suppression of the Joseph Smith Papyri – John Gee

Dimensions of the Sacred

Architectural Patterns of the Sacred: The Panchayatana Style and Quincunx Design – Stephen D. Ricks and Shirley S. Ricks
A Familiar Eternity – Ralph C. Hancock
The Lord Will Not Forget Them! Māori Seers and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand – Robert Joseph

History and Teachings of the Restoration

It’s Hard to Doubt His Sincerity – Daniel C. Peterson
An Essay on the One True Morality and the Principle of Freedom – Alma Don Sorensen
Notice and Value – Kevin Christensen
Separated but Not Divorced: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Its Uncomfortable Relationship with Its Polygamous Past – Craig L. Foster

Louis C. Midgley

Louis Midgley (Ph.D. Brown University) is an emeritus professor of political science at Brigham Young University, where he taught the history of political philosophy, which includes efforts of Christian churchmen and theologians to identify, explain, understand and cope with the evils in this world. Dr. Midgley has therefore had an abiding interest in both dogmatic and systematic theology, and the alternatives to both. His doctoral dissertation was on the religious socialist political ideology of Paul Tillich, a once famous German American Protestant theologian, most famous for his systematic theology which is a radical elaboration of classical theism. Dr. Midgley’s encounter with the writings of Leo Strauss, an influential Jewish philosopher/intellectual historian drew his attention to the radical challenge posed by what is often called modernity to both the wisdom of Jerusalem, which is grounded on divine revelation, and also the contrasting, competing wisdom of Athens, which was fashioned by unaided human reason. Dr. Midgley has an interest in the ways in which communities of faith have responded to the challenges posed by modernity to faith in God grounded on divine special revelation.

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