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Byu Religious Education WINTER 2010 REVIEW byu religious education WINTER 2010 REVIEW CALENDAR COMMENTS INTERVIEWS & SPOTLIGHTS STUDENT & TEACHER UPDATES BOOKS Hugh Nibley A Life of Faith, Learning, and Teaching message from the dean’s office Enduring Examples Each year, Religious Education mourns the passing of retired colleagues. In 2009 we lost Daniel H. Ludlow, Clark V. Johnson, Truman G. Madsen, Robert J. Matthews, and E. Dale LeBaron. Each made lasting contributions to BYU and the Church. Clark and Dale, unlike Dan, Truman, and Bob, were not widely known around the Church. But I want to make special mention of them because of their unique and unheralded research projects. Both of them were collectors. Clark Johnson passed away of cancer on July 25, 2009, not long after he and his wife, Cheryl, returned from serving their third mission together. Clark’s research had its focus in Missouri. In 1992 he published his most enduring scholarly work, Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Confl ict. In Doctrine and Covenants 123:1–6, the Prophet Joseph Smith instructed the Saints to write petitions to the U.S. government detailing their losses after their expulsion from Missouri. They were to request redress for their property. Clark located and transcribed 773 of those petitions and published them in his 830-page book. It is a gold mine of information about people, places, property, Church history, and economics on the American frontier of the 1830s. It will be used as a resource forever. Dale LeBaron died in an auto-pedestrian accident on December 3, 2009. A few years after he joined the Religious Education faculty in 1986, he began a great work of collecting. Wanting to preserve the conversion accounts of Black Africa’s earliest Latter-day Saints, he visited ten coun- tries, conducting oral interviews of over four hundred Latter-day Saint converts. He captured their stories on tape and transcribed most of the interviews. Although he gave many speeches about those early converts and published a book and some articles, his biggest legacy from the project is not published. His vast collection of taped and transcribed interviews is available for other researchers in the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. This is unique material that with the passing of time can no longer be duplicated. It will also be used as a resource forever. Although neither project received much public fanfare, both are extraordinary examples of enduring scholarship. I believe no one can write the history of the Church in Missouri without making reference to Clark’s collection of redress petitions. Likewise, no one can write the history of the Church in Africa without making reference to Dale’s collection of interviews. Kent P. Jackson Associate dean of Religious Education contents BYU Religious Education Review A Publication of the Religious Studies Center WEB: BYUReligiousEducationReview.org RESEARCH UPDATE: TEACHING LEGACY: OUTREACH: Richard Bennett: Hugh Nibley Muslim Visitors at BYU Beyond Classroom Walls 6 10 16 Foreword . 2 Q&A . 22 “The Good News” by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel Conversations with Camille Fronk Olson and Brent L. Top Upcoming Events . 3 Donor Spotlights . 25 Richard and Julienne Dance Faculty & Staff Highlights . 4 Edward Joseph and Helen Hall Leon Historian’s Corner . 8 Student Mentoring . .26 Religious Education’s Ties to Historic Sites Research Mentoring at the RSC by Kate Lindsay by Scott C. Esplin New Publications . .28 RSC Update . 18 Fulfi lling Our Purpose by Ben Tingey Faculty and Staff Notes . .30 RELIGIOUS Eric D. Gustafson Jack R. Christianson Executive Editor James D. Jensen DESIGN & STUDIES CENTER Randall L. Hall Greg P. Christofferson R. Devan Jensen Kate Lindsay PRODUCTION Dale E. Miller David T. Giles Laurie Mildenhall Stephen Hales Director Production Jolene E. Rockwood Veneese C. Nelson Jonathon R. Owen Creative Inc. Terry B. Ball Manager Jack L. Rushton Lindon J. Robison Rosalind E. Ricks Brent R. Nordgren Creative Director Associate Director Lynne K. Speierman Jo Ann H. Seely Dayna K. Thomas Stephen Hales Kent P. Jackson Thomas L. Tyler James A. Toronto Administrative Photographer Thomas R. Valletta Assistant Art Director Editorial Advisory REVIEW STAFF Richard B. Crookston Victor L. Walch Joany O. Pinegar Kelly Nield Board Publications Nelson M. Boren Emeritus Advisory Student Editorial Designers Director Kathryn S. Callister Board Interns Kelly Nield Richard Neitzel Kathy K. Clayton Gayle O. Brown Caitlin S. Channer Spencer Hales Holzapfel Milly Day Tad R. Callister Jacob F. Frandsen To obtain a free subscription for the BYU Religious Education Review magazine, please visit review.byu.edu, or call 801-422-6975. WINTER 2010 1 foreword the good news! A monumental documentary series about Jesus Christ may prove to be one of the most important fi lms ever produced at BYU. Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God, a documentary produced by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute, BYU Religious Education, and BYU Broadcasting, aired on BYU-TV in early 2010. The monumental series offers the best of over two hundred hours of interviews with LDS experts in their fi elds on the life and mission of Jesus Christ. Filming was done on site in Israel, Egypt, Denmark, and on a specially built stage at the LDS Motion Picture Studio in Provo, Utah. This remarkable series is the if Latter-day Saints could produce a “When I repeat the titles brainchild of S. Kent Brown, my documentary fi lm as well crafted and Savior and Redeemer, I former New Testament professor thought out, but with the dimension of at BYU. Only after years of careful faith? Thus began an effort that would mean something funda- and thoughtful work on the New go through concept building, research mentally different from Testament was Kent in a position to papers, BYU classes, script drafts, what most of my Christian take on such an immense project. The review committees, preproduction friends mean.” —S. Kent Brown idea of such a tremendous project planning, and fi lm tests. came after Kent viewed the PBS docu- Kent believed the fi lm needed mentary From Jesus to Christ. He was a conceptual framework to guide and Jewish history and events that impressed with the production but the treatment of the entire story. He impacted the early Christian church. disappointed by its “willful challenge recruited eight thoughtful faculty Kent next approached Robert L. to deeply held Christian beliefs.” He colleagues to join in writing segments Millet, dean of BYU’s Religious said it told “too brief a story, with of the broad story, including essen- Education, for funds to pay faculty an axe to grind.” He thought, What tial background pieces on Roman reviewers to examine and critique 2 BYU RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REVIEW upcoming events Open to the campus community and the general public FEBRUARY 2010 Friday, February 26 The 2010 BYU Church History Symposium, sponsored by Religious Education and the Religious Studies Center, will be held on BYU campus from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Topic is the administrative history of the Church. Speakers will include Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone, Richard L. Bushman, Edward L. Kimball, John W. Welch, Susan Easton Much of the fi lming for the series was done on site in Israel, Egypt, and Denmark. Black, Fred E. Woods, Mark Staker, Robert L. Millet, and many more. the basic document. He then solic- mean. Speaking generally, their Jesus MARCH 2010 ited critiques from a half-dozen saves those trapped in sin who receive Saturday, March 27, 2010 distinguished faculty members from the sacraments or ordinances of the The 2010 BYU Religious Education different academic disciplines. Christian church. Again speaking Easter Conference will be held in the The fi rst episode, titled “Before generally, in their view, those saved Joseph Smith Building auditorium Abraham Was, I Am,” paints a vivid must receive these ordinances while on BYU campus at 9 a.m. Visit easterconference.byu.edu for more portrait of Jesus as Jehovah. A key living in mortality, before death. Jesus’ information. to understanding who Jesus is rests saving power does not extend to those in the events of the premortal Grand who die without such ordinances. In OCTOBER 2010 Council, wherein our Father in stark contrast, our Jesus possesses Friday and Saturday, October Heaven selected him to become our power to save those who have died 29–30, 2010 Redeemer and Savior. All of this is old without the gospel and to open the The 39th Annual Sidney B. Sperry news to Latter-day Saints but almost door for the dead to receive salvation. Symposium will be held in the unknown to other Christians. As the Our Jesus holds infi nite power to save.” Joseph Smith Building auditorium on BYU campus. The keynote series continues, it covers the mortal In the end, this may be the most address will be Friday, October 29. ministry of Jesus and ends with his important fi lm produced at BYU in Second Coming. this generation, reminding us that These events are free of The overall question answered in indeed the gospel is “good news”! charge, and registration the series is Who is Jesus? Kent testi- is not required. For more fi es that “Jesus as Savior and Redeemer information, please contact stands at the heart of our faith.” But Brent Nordgren at then he adds, “When I repeat the titles 801-422-3293. Savior and Redeemer, I mean some- Richard Neitzel Holzapfel thing fundamentally different from Publications Director what most of my Christian friends Religious Studies Center WINTER 2010 3 highlights Faculty Highlight: Kip Sperry KIP SPERRY ([email protected]) IS A PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY AND DOCTRINE AT BYU. Kip Sperry has taught at BYU since 1991. He teaches family history, American and LDS genealogical research methods and sources, and Latter-day Saint temples.
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