The New Era 1:1 (January 1971): 42-44; CWHN 13: 301-305
February 13, 1969 by •
Abraham,
Adam,
angel(s),
animals,
anthropologist,
Apocalypse of Abraham,
apostles,
behavior,
Christian(s) writings,
computers,
evil One,
fiction,
gadgets,
God,
good,
intelligence,
light,
machine,
man,
mind,
moral(s),
religion,
righteous the,
robot,
science,
science fiction,
scientist(s),
Sophists,
the Gospel,
The LORD
22 pp. s.s., typed transcript of a talk given February 13, 1969; published, with some changes, in LDSF 2: Latter-day Science Fiction, ed. by Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, Mass.: Parables, 1985): 5-28; CWHN 12:491-531 Listen to recording: MP3 Right-click (cntrl-click for macs) and “save link as” to download onto MP3. This recording is also found at BYU …
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February 18, 1966 by •
ancient world,
Apollodorus,
Athens,
Augustus Caesar,
blackmail,
Christianity,
disciples,
education,
Egypt,
Greeks,
idleness,
imposing appendix,
John Chrysostom,
Palaemon,
pseudo-wisemen,
rhetoric,
Rome,
Seven Sages,
Socrates,
Sophists,
Symmachus,
teachers,
the University of Athens,
tyrant(s),
underachievement,
upper-class,
wisdom
BYU Studies 9:4 (Summer 1969): 440-452; CWHN 10: 287-302. Nibley traces some interesting parallels in educational matters and especially in campus unrest in the decade after 1960 with the medieval world. — Midgley
June 2, 1965 by •
ancient civilization,
Arab(s),
Babylonian(s),
Cicero,
conceited,
entertainment,
Hajji Baba,
intellectual,
knowledge,
orators,
persuasion,
philosophy,
Protagoras,
rhetor,
rhetoric,
scholar(s),
self-interest,
Socrates,
Sophistry,
Sophists,
spoiled
“Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Fall of Everything Else,” Western Speech 20:2 (Spring 1956):57-82; CWHN 10:243-286. A study of the rhetoric of the second Sophistic movement and its influence on politics and culture generally, with obvious significance for our own time because of remarkable parallel developments in the current world of business, …
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March 24, 1959 by •
Bible,
Christian(s),
Christianity,
church,
consensus,
Egyptian,
evidence,
God,
historian(s),
historical evidence,
history,
Homer,
ignorance,
Iliad,
Jews,
knowledge,
Mormon(s),
order,
philosophers,
prophecy,
religion,
religious,
scholar(s),
secular,
Sophists,
the system
in Great Issues Forum, Series 2 (Religion), No. 5 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Extension Division, 1955): 22-39; CWHN 12:434-449. This is the published version of the first of several famous exchanges that Nibley has had with Sterling M. McMurrin. This one was held on March 23, 1955, under the sponsorship of the Department …
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January 2, 1950 by •
anthropomorphists,
Brigham Young University,
Christianity,
church,
classical,
degree,
God,
graduate studies,
intellectuals,
Jesus Christ,
knowledge,
language(s),
learned world,
learning,
religion,
religious views,
rhetoric,
scholar(s),
schoolmen,
service degree,
Sophists,
spiritualizers,
the Gospel,
the School,
the University,
True Church,
universities
8 pp. Open letter, addressed to “Dear Brother Burgon,” dated July 29, 1960, with a cover letter, addressed to “Dear Brother…,” 1 p., dated August 3, 1960