Louis Midgley wrote:I am, however, pleased that I have managed to have my review of a really excellent book by my friend, John Gee, finally in print. And also to have some of the story of how his excellent book was unpublished by the BYU Administration told with most of the ugly details set out, My essay sets out some of the silly and disgusting things that the current BYU Administration allowed or facilitated when they unpublished Professor Gee's wonderful book entitled Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith, which is a genuinely faith supporting book that was published by the Religious Studies Center at BYU, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company, in 2020.
Wow. This sounds pretty salacious. Has it actually been published, though? I only looked briefly, but was unable to find it at Interpreter…
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
I wonder when the revised edition of Dr. Gee’s book will appear. I believe we’re approaching three years since it was pulled. (It’s still available for purchase through FAIR’s bookstore.)
“But if you are told by your leader to do a thing, do it. None of your business whether it is right or wrong.” Heber C. Kimball, 8 Nov. 1857
Yeah, he does make it sound like it's been published. But then again, we know the apologists have a very low bar for what counts as publishing a paper. It's possible that he typed it out on his favorite manual typewriter and nobody else has read it yet.
If it does make its presence known online, I'll definitely give it a fair review of my own.
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As Midgley points out, this was not about dressing up in ancient attire and walking around like a Reformed Egyptian. It was about a book that included much inflammatory misinformation, which as Dr Midgley says, "Should not trouble BYU in the least. If they can countenance apologetics they should have no problem with this book."
Looks like more ark-steadying to me. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Sometimes BYU will publish its own faculty’s stuff, sometimes it won’t. It is entirely up to the powers that be to decide. Surely some vanity press with extreme views will publish it.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
Louis Midgley wrote:I am, however, pleased that I have managed to have my review of a really excellent book by my friend, John Gee, finally in print. And also to have some of the story of how his excellent book was unpublished by the BYU Administration told with most of the ugly details set out, My essay sets out some of the silly and disgusting things that the current BYU Administration allowed or facilitated when they unpublished Professor Gee's wonderful book entitled Saving Faith: How Families Protect, Sustain, and Encourage Faith, which is a genuinely faith supporting book that was published by the Religious Studies Center at BYU, in cooperation with Deseret Book Company, in 2020.
Wow. This sounds pretty salacious. Has it actually been published, though? I only looked briefly, but was unable to find it at Interpreter…
Mosiah 16:6 comes to mind: “….speaking of things to come as though they had already come.” I assume the ugly details will be posted on the Interpreter website in the next few weeks.
“But if you are told by your leader to do a thing, do it. None of your business whether it is right or wrong.” Heber C. Kimball, 8 Nov. 1857
As Midgley points out, this was not about dressing up in ancient attire and walking around like a Reformed Egyptian. It was about a book that included much inflammatory misinformation, which as Dr Midgley says, "Should not trouble BYU in the least. If they can countenance apologetics they should have no problem with this book."
Lets just face the music, Gee is out of his league on every single subject he writes on...
