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Posted by: BeenThereDunnThatExMo ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 01:25PM
Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling??? (n/t)


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Posted by: blueorchid ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 01:34PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

Do seminary teachers count as G.A.s?

I was going to say that the ones who possess a degree went the way of the Dodo bird, extinct, but then I realized they never really existed in the first place.

Expertise in theology is for other churches.

Expertise in mormon theology is for RFM.

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Posted by: Lethbridge Reprobate ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 02:58PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

How about degrees in business? Who really runs this multi-billion dollar enterprise? Surely not the 15 geezers at the top? Anybody know?

Ron Burr

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Posted by: elcid ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 03:46PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

Well, I don't think there are degrees in theology at BYU. You can take classes in "ancient scriptures" or stuff like that, but I don't think there is a divinity degree. Obviously the GAs are selected based on their business accumen. Because that is what they need. I don't think any of them are much in the way of real deal scriptorians. Maybe Holland, but he just seems like a Dodo bird to me...

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Posted by: knee fight ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 03:50PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

i don'T KNOW THAT WE TEACH THAT

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Posted by: slatheredtwice ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 04:24PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

James E. Talmadge was probably the only scholar they could claim for many years. However, I think his degree was in Law, not Divinity.

I have a certificate of advances studies from the Institutes of Religion. Maybe I should offer my services. Oh, that's not the same thing?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/2012 04:25PM by slatheredtwice.

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Posted by: CA girl ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 04:46PM
Well, Dodo R. Holland

Jeffy boy has a master's degree in religious education from Brigham Young University. He also obtained master and doctor of philosophy degrees in American Studies from Yale University.

Does religious education count? Because I think that's as good as it gets for the Mormon boys when it comes to what you asked.

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Posted by: 3X ( )
Date: September 25, 2012 05:00PM
Re: Starting With Monson...How Far DOWN The Hierarchy Do U Have 2 Go B4 U Reach A So-Called "General-Authority" Who Actually Possesses A Degree In Divinity/Theology/Counseling???

Mormons disdain "priestcraft", they want untrained functionaries posing as clergy for the LDS community.


Pastoral confidentiality? What the heck is that says Joe Mo.

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