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Is possibly the only Nibley book I kept in my library post-apostasy. A couple of days ago I accidentally discovered it online, so I’m posting the link for those who may be interested, critic or apologist. I “inherited” this book from a member who got bored with it after a couple of chapters (“too academic”, she said, which is kind of ironic considering the chapter "Zeal Without Knowledge").

Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless.

My favourite chapters have always been:

The Foreward by Truman Madsen.

An Intellectual Autobiography.

Educating The Saints.

Zeal Without Knowldege.

The Book of Mormon: A Minimal Statement.

When I was teaching at BYU, we used to have our students read "Zeal without Knowledge." I like that one, too. Nibley was a brilliant man and extremely well-read. It's too bad his apologetic work is what it is, though.

Runtu wrote: Nibley was a brilliant man and extremely well-read.

In that regard the Bibliography is also interesting, but I don't think it's comprehensive.

Runtu wrote:When I was teaching at BYU, . . .

You taught at BYU? When and what subject?

One of my favorite quotes of his is:

Nothing is settled yet, not only because the last precincts are never heard from in science—and their report always comes as a shocker—but because we are far from getting the last word in religion either. For us the story remains open-ended—at both ends—in a progression of beginnings and endings without beginning or end, each episode proceeding from what goes before and leading to the next.
"The Expanding Gospel," in Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless, 22