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Sleeping in EQ · 03-12-2008, 02:04 PM

The Internet is, I think, contributing to the Church being more open than it has been in the last 25 years. As a researcher who has done archival work, I'm pleased.

Someday I'll do some work on the early Utah Church and the telegraph. It won't be controversial, but it will be interesting as all get out.

I'm also pleased that the dichotomy between leaders and scholars, which was intensified in the 80s, is weakening. Both respect for ecclesiastical leadership and respect for scholarly truth seeking are important.

Quinn's perspective has mostly stood the test of time, but making an overly-dramatic martyred spectacle of himself has not.

03-12-2008, 02:04 PM	#16
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	The Internet is, I think, contributing to the Church being more open than it has been in the last 25 years. As a researcher who has done archival work, I'm pleased. Someday I'll do some work on the early Utah Church and the telegraph. It won't be controversial, but it will be interesting as all get out. I'm also pleased that the dichotomy between leaders and scholars, which was intensified in the 80s, is weakening. Both respect for ecclesiastical leadership and respect for scholarly truth seeking are important. Quinn's perspective has mostly stood the test of time, but making an overly-dramatic martyred spectacle of himself has not. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies.