Podcast appearances and mentions of Donald W Parry

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Review of Donald W. Parry, 175 Temple Symbols and Their Meanings (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2020). 310 pages. $26.99 (hardcover). Abstract: In a must-have book written for a Latter-day Saint audience, Donald Parry offers profound insights into 175 features of ancient and modern temples, including architectural features, aspects of ritual, and temple-related doctrine. In this book written for […] The post A Deeper Understanding of the Temple in 175 Entries first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Right about now, we're probably all missing the temple. Never before has the need for the instant peace that comes from stepping into these sacred spaces been more keenly felt by so many members. But we can do more during this time than eagerly await the day when we can finally return to full temple worship. In this week's bonus episode, we invite religious scholar Donald W. Parry to help us dig into the meaning behind temple symbols so that we can be ready to enter the Lord's house with a new perspective and greater understanding. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Essay #32, we discussed the view of Latter-day Saint scholar Donald W. Parry that the outbound journey of the Creation and the Fall is mirrored in the inbound journey of the Tabernacle, the prototype for later Israelite temples. The Garden of Eden can be seen as a natural “temple,” where Adam and Eve lived in God’s presence for a time. The post Essay #55: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Garden of Eden as a Model for the Temple in Israel and Old Babylon (Moses 3:8–15) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

In Essay #32, we discussed the view of Latter-day Saint scholar Donald W. Parry that the outbound journey of the Creation and the Fall is mirrored in the inbound journey of the Tabernacle, the prototype for later Israelite temples. The Garden of Eden can be seen as a natural “temple,” where Adam and Eve lived in God's presence for a time. The post Essay #55: Moses Sees the Garden of Eden (Moses 3): The Garden of Eden as a Model for the Temple in Israel and Old Babylon (Moses 3:8–15) first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Abstract: In this erudite survey of textual variants in the “Great Isaiah Scroll” from Qumran, Donald W. Parry lays out the major categories of these differences with illustrative examples. This significant description of the most significant book of Old Testament prophecy provides ample evidence of Parry’s conclusion that the “Great Isaiah Scroll” “sets forth such […] The post The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Variants first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

[Page 55]Abstract: In this erudite survey of textual variants in the “Great Isaiah Scroll” from Qumran, Donald W. Parry lays out the major categories of these differences with illustrative examples. This significant description of the most significant book of Old Testament prophecy provides ample evidence of Parry's conclusion that the “Great Isaiah Scroll” “sets forth […] The post The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa)—Catalogue of Textual Variants first appeared on The Interpreter Foundation.

Right about now, we're probably all missing the temple. Never before has the need for the instant peace that comes from stepping into these sacred spaces been more keenly felt by so many members. But we can do more during this time than eagerly await the day when we can finally return to full temple worship. In this week's bonus episode, we invite religious scholar Donald W. Parry to help us dig into the meaning behind temple symbols so that we can be ready to enter the Lord's house with a new perspective and greater understanding.

Today we are led to believe that the fight between religion and science is something new. We are told that it is a radically new idea that the earth originated through spontaneous causes. And we are taught that ancient people only believed in God because they couldn't explain natural phenomenon.  NOTHING could be further from the truth! These ideas were prevalent in many civilizations, including Ancient Greece. The Greeks not only believed in a God that revealed truths to mankind and an afterlife where we would be held accountable to Him for our choices, they understood the need for worship and holy places to make us more virtuous and pure.  This two-part podcast series first introduces you to the key words and ideas that clarify these religious debates, then it takes you into ancient writings to explore them and see how the religious debates we see around us are nothing new--they are actually very old.  Listener's Guide: Use the time stamps below to skip to any part of the podcast.  2:42  Mantic defined 5:35  Sophic defined 9:05  "Harmonizing" them 14:47  Civilizations "created by God"  17:05 Mysteries of Eleusis 19:55  Musaeus 24:40  Religion was institutionalized   25:45  Creation as an act of God  Quotes from this episode: All quotes from “Three Shrines: Mantic, Sophic, Sophistic” by Stephen D Ricks, Donald W. Parry and Hugh Nibley found in The Ancient State: The Rulers and the Ruled MANTIC “The Greek word Mantic simply means prophetic or inspired, oracular, coming from the other world and not from the resources of the human mind.” “‘Vertical' Judaism, i.e. the belief in the real and present operation of divine gifts by which one receives constant guidance from the other world.” “It supplies the element of hope in our lives by assuring us of the reality of things beyond.” “Those who share the Mantic hope of things beyond, whatever those things may be, are in a very real sense a community of believers, just as Christians, Jews and Moslems form a fellowship of ‘the People of the Book,' because of their belief in inspired books—even though they may not agree as to which books are the inspired ones.” “None is more insistent on the need for revelation than Plato. Plato was the greatest champion of the Mantic.” *Revelation, supernatural, duality, what's to come SOPHIC “The Sophic, on the other hand, is the tradition which boasted its cool, critical, objective, naturalistic and scientific attitude; its Jewish equivalent is called ‘horizontal' Judaism—scholarly, bookish, halachic, intellectual, rabbinical. All religions seem to make some distinction.” “On the other hand, the Sophic society unitedly rejects the Mantic proposition, and it too forms a single community.” *Reason, materialism, here and now, naturalistic SOPHISTIC “Sophistic came to be identical with Rhetorical, that is, a pseudothought form which merely imitated the other two in an attempt to impress the public.” “HARMONIZING” SOPHIC AND MANTIC “Whoever accepts the Sophic attitude must abandon the Mantic, and vice versa. It is the famous doctrine of Two Ways found among the Orientals, Greeks and early Christians—if you try to compromise between them you get nowhere, because as one of the Apostolic Fathers points out, they lead in opposite directions.” “It is when one seeks to combine or reconcile the Sophic and the Mantic that trouble begins.” MANTIC IN HISTORY “Each great civilization thought of itself as having been carefully planned in the beginning, all its rites and patterns handed down from above, a complete, perfect structure, planned in detail from the beginning as the faithful reflection of a heavenly prototype present in sacred books of great antiquity. Over against this, the Sophic presented a theory of the evolution of man from his primitive beginnings, following ‘natural laws,' a theory which armies of dedicated researchers have failed to make even momentarily watertight to this day; not that it mig...