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It was mentioned that David Holland wrote an essay about open canon and revelation in The Oxford Handbook on Mormonism, which explored the concept of multiple revelations leading to a greater unity of understanding.
Here's a really nice Latter-day Saint take on this, what might be perceived as kind of a conflict between faith and works. And I think this captures that sense of the unity. This comes from David Holl...
— Episode: James Part 2 • Dr. J.B. Haws • Nov 13 -...
Episode: James Part 2 • Dr. J.B. Haws • Nov 13 - Nov 19
It was mentioned that David Holland wrote an essay about open canon and revelation in The Oxford Handbook on Mormonism, which explored the concept of multiple revelations leading to a greater unity of understanding.
Here's a really nice Latter-day Saint take on this, what might be perceived as kind of a conflict between faith and works. And I think this captures that sense of the unity. This comes from David Holland, who teaches at the Harvard Divinity School, a brilliant mind. He wrote this essay in the Oxford Handbook on Mormonism, and it's about open canon and revelation.
He's talking about the restoration thinking suggests the possibility that a great profusion of divine words, even with many of those words in tension with each other, might result in a greater unity of purpose and understanding than a smaller, more restrained set of revelations.