I'm preparing a series of blog posts requested by Zondervan's Academic Blog, Koinonia which will appear in about a month. I'm very honored to be writing a week's worth of posts. I am also excited to be able to give academics a fresh way of looking at Mormonism — and indeed, the Bible and all of theology — from the point of view of representational thinking. I would very much appreciate the prayers of you readers as I craft these articles.
In them, I will explore the myth of historical distance, the concept of the Bible as a representational system, the idea of appropriating Biblical events; and how all these contrast with the fluid, ever-changing LDS concept of truth.
For more information, see The Mormon Mirage 3rd Edition: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today (Zondervan, 2009). Also available as an audiobook and as an expanded-text E-book for Nook, Kindle and other reading devices.
