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Ditors of Religious Values and Beliefs by Bringing Together Nationally-Recognized LDS and Non-LDS Scholars and Interested Others Committee for the S~nS~OnE Endowment Through SUNSTONE’S publications, the annual Mormon Theological Symposium, and a forthcoming inter-faith lecture series, the SUNSTONE From FOUNDATION hopes to encourage the study ditors of religious values and beliefs by bringing together nationally-recognized LDS and non-LDS scholars and interested others. To insure the usefulness and quality of these programs, a number of prominent Errata Rules individuals have lent their support to the SUNSTONE neglected to credit Alexis 1. The D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction establishment of an endowment for the Kelner and Utah Holiday for the Contest is open to all writers. Entries SUNSTONE FOUNDATION. YOU can help by photograph of the Trevor Southey must be delivered to the SUNSTONE giving a tax-deductible donation of any painting published :in Volume six, office or postmarked by I October Number two. We regret this omission. 1981. sum within your means. Beginning with the July-August issue of Papers must be typewritten, SUNSTONE, the list of endowment More on Historians, double-spaced, on one side of 81/2 by contributors, both individual and The last magazine (March-April, 1981, 11 inch paper (not onionskin). Since corporate, will be printed under the Vol. 6, No. 2) included an editorial about manuscripts will not be returned, following headings: Donors, $25; the recent discovery of the Joseph III contestants should keep a copy and Sponsors, $100; Patrons, $500; blessing. In that essay we thanked send in the original. The stories Benefactors, $1000 or more; Donations in several people who had answered should not exceed 6,000 words. One Kind. Of course, contributions may be questions we had about the historical author may submit no more than given anonymously. context of the document. Each had a three stories. The editors and Endowment Committee unique perspective on the succession Each entry must be accompanied by a members thank you for your aid in this story. We wove these viewpoints into signed statement from the author worthwhile endeavor. our own composite interpretation of the attesting that it is the contestant’s events. In the editorial we failed to original work, that it is not being Members of Committee for the S t~NS TONE include information about the particular ENDOWMENT expertise of each of these historians~an considered elsewhere for publication, Lucybeth Rampton, Chair, Committee for the that it has not won another contest, Sunstone Endowment oversight we wish to correct. Michael and that it will not be submitted Quinn, of course, wrote the article on Thomas Alexander, Director, Charles Redd elsewhere until the contest results Center for Western Studies succession which appeared in BYU have been announced. Studies in 1976. Ron Esplin, an expert on Marilyn Arnold, Chair, Center for Christian Brigham Young, provided information 4. Announcement of winning entries Values, Brigham Young University will be made in the January/February about Brigham and the extent to which C.arl Arrington, Associate Editor, People Joseph turned critical priesthood keys to 1982 issue of the magazine. SUNSTONE Magazine the Quorum of the Twelve. Linda reserves the right to publish at some Newell, who is co-authoring a biography time in the future all articles submitted H. Brent Beesley, Executive Director, Federal of Emma Smith, shared research on but is not obligated to do so; it reserves Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. Joseph III. Scott Kenney, a biographer of the right to make editorial changes as Senator & Mrs. Wallace F. Bennett, Joseph F. Smith, a~td Ron Walker, of needed in published entries. Republican, Utah Heber J. Grant, answered general 5. Prizes will be awarded as follows: Lowell Bennion, Chair, Community Services questions about the late nineteenth and First prize, $500 Council, Salt Lake City early twentieth century. Second prize, $250 Douglas C. Braithwaite, Director of Third prize, $100 Admissions, Harvard Business School 1982 D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Three honorable mentions, $50 each Richard Cummings, Director of Honors Contest Program, University of Utah In honor of the sponsor of SUNSTONE’S Coming in the Next Issue Judith R. Dushku, President, Exponent II, fiction contest, next year’s competition Mary C. Segers, "Abortion Politics and Inc. will carry the name of D.K. Brown. Policy: Is There a Middle Ground?" Edna Clark Ericksen, Utah State Senate, 1933, Contest winners will receive cash prizes Primary General Board totalling $1000. The first place story will Richard Sherlock, "A Deafening be published in SUNSTONE. Silence: The Church and Abortion" Edwin Firmage, Professor of Law, University of Utah SUNSTONE encourages any interested Richard Van Wagoner and Steve Walker, David Forsyth, Vice President, McGraw-Hill writer to submit material. All entries "The Return of Thomas B. Marsh" Publication Co. should in some manner relate to the Alan Frank Keele, "Trailing Clouds of experience of the Latter-day Saints. All Robert E. Fowles, School of Medicine, Glory? Artistic Treatments (and Stanford University varieties of theme, tone, and attitude are Mistreatments) of the Pre-existence" encouraged. Both traditional and Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican, Utah experimental forms will be considered. Martin Marty, "Cheerios in Church" U. Carlisle Hunsaker, Instructor, LDS High literary quality is mandatory. Edwin B. Firmage and J.D. Williams, Institute, Salt Lake City Entries are judged by a board of five "The Institutional Church and the Edward L. Kimball, J. Reuben Clark Law independent judges. Individual: The Church in Politics?" School, Brigham Young University May/June 55 Stanley Kimball, History, Southern Illinois Monsignor Jerome Stoffel, Catholic Diocese, applications are contemporary. A person University Salt Lake City unacquainted with the climate of Anne G. Osborne, Assistant Dean, Paul Swenson, Editor, Utah Holiday opinion and conditions of today would University of Utah Medical School, Relief not understand them. Prophets of old Sterling Van Wagonen, Executive Director, Society General Board Sundance Institute for Film and Television likewise were enmeshed in their times Representative Wayne Owens, Democrat, and cultures even as our leaders are Utah Congratulations! today. Chase Peterson, Vice President for Health SUNSTONE is especially pleased to The scriptures were not written in the Sciences, University of Utah announce that at the spring meeting of Salt Lake City or London or Frankfurt or the Mormon History Association in Sydney of today. They were written Marvin Rytting, Psychology, Indiana-Purdue centuries ago in other lands and cultures University Rexburg Thomas G. Alexander was presented MHA’s award for the and, for the most part, in different Jan Shipps, Past President, Mormon History languages. This adds to their interest Association outstanding article published by a senior scholar during 1980. His article., "The and value. But if we ~ould understand Rev. Jeffrey R. Silliman, Mt. Olympus Reconstruction of Mormon them, we must try to Fut ourselves in the Presbyterian Church Doctrine: From Joseph Smith to position of the writers and the people to John Sorenson, Anthropology and Progressive Theology," was published whom they wrote. Admittedly this is Archaeology, Brigham Young University in the July-August 1980 issue of SUNSTONE difficult, but any knowledge we gain of Trevor Southey, Artist the history, language, and culture of (Volume Five, Number Four). scriptural peoples will enhance our understanding and aF.preciation of their records. (pp. 4-5.) The Authors of Scripture The various writers of scripture are not alike. Some were prophets of God who spoke with authority and conviction and gave us great truths.. Others were unnamed and unknown. Still others were successors, sons of former writers, who wrote to continue the record. This is especially true of the Book of Mormon. In the Old Testament we do not know Understanding the Scriptures who was the final writer or editor of the first five books or .of Jcshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, I and 2 Kings, I and 2 The Sunday School Supplement is written by from Shakespeare: Chronicles, Jonah, Job, and many others. Ecclesiastes, although ascribed to several interested scholars. Because diverse In religion, and wide-ranging material is addressed, the Solomon, was written much later and by What damned error, but some sober another hand. The Psalms were written Supplement does not necessarily reflect the brow opinions of the editors or publisher. It is not only by David but also by Will bless it, and approve it with a text songwriters over centuries of Israelite meant to encourage discussion and further Hiding the grossness with fair study and is neither definitive nor history. Some were written while the ornament? Jews were in exile :in Babylon. Proverbs is authoritative. Questions or - Merchant of Venice, act 3, scene 2 recommendations from readers are a collection of writings based on much of encouraged. We now follow with a selection of Dr. Israelite history--a far richer work than Bennion’s insights--but suggest that the Solomon could have Froduced by In this issue of Sunday School entire volume is well worth reading. himself. No one knows who wrote Supplement we depart from the Daniel, ]Ezra, Nehemiah, or the Song of traditional practice of quoting from The Background & Makeup of Scripture Solomon. several sources in order to provide our The scriptures were written neither in What should we conclude from the readers a survey of a newly published heaven nor in a vacuum. They were nature of the authorship of the Bible? I book which is particularly relevant for created by prophets and other authors would suggest two things. First, the members of the Church’s Gospel who lived at specific times and places in writings of the great prophets of Israel Doctrine Classes. human history. The writers of scripture and of Paul, James, and John and other The new book is Lowell L. Bennion’s were addressing real men and women known men of the New Testament are Understanding The Scriptures (Salt Lake about problems and issues of deep likely to be more authoritative City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1981, 88 pp., concern ...
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