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Name: Temple and Cosmos

Full name: Temple and Cosmos: Beyond This Ignorant Present

Authors: Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton
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9780875795232
0875795234

It is not that I love Hugh Nibley's writing style so much; but he is the ultimate historio-archeological packrat and has researched every topic of interest to him to the nth degree of what is available in the scholarship of the world at a given time. Fascinating and fabulous romp through the world of ideas. He additionally leaves you to draw your own conclusions, which I appreciate!My favorite chapters (now that I am finally done with all 600 pages) are 3 & 7. What a gift to be trusted by an author to make the connections yourself.p. 534 (talking about C.S. Lewis) ". . . the test of the Christian is not to conform with the commandments and accept teachings which are perfectly right and sensible to any normal way of thinking; if the gospel consisted only of such convenient and unobjectionable things, we could be quite sure we were making it up ourselves. It is the very contrariness and even the absurdity of the Christian teachings that provide, for him, the highest proof of their divinity--this is not man's doing." Why else are we commanded to seek for answers if they are too easily accessible? The terrible questions that Nibley raises are "Strange doctrines" indeed! this book invites you to step beyond "the ignorant present."