27. CFM: Matthew 21-23, Mark 11, Luke 19-20, and John 12

Original title: No Shema - No Christianity; and King means King

In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the twenty-first lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (May 15-21) is titled "Behold, Thy King Cometh", and covers Matthew 21-23, Mark 11, Luke 19-20, and John 12.

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Sources:

D&C 98; D&C 132; Abraham 2

Seminary Manual: Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 22:34-40

New Testament Made Easier by David Ridges

"Wrong Roads and Revelation" (Holland; and here)

"The Second Great Commandment" (Russell Nelson)

"The Light of Christ" (Boyd Packer)

"Two Great Commandments" (Dallin Oaks)

"The Constitution: A Glorious Standard" ; God, Family, Country: Our Three Great Loyalties; and This Nation Shall Endure by Ezra Taft Benson (here)

"The True, Pure, and Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ" (M. Russell Ballard)

Brigham Young: JD 7.8; JD 10.254; Joseph F. Smith; George Albert Smith

True Meaning of the Atonement; The 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen (also: The Real Thomas Jefferson)

The Life of John Taylor by B. H. Roberts

"How To Love Yourself Like God Loves You"

Many Are Called but Few Are Chosen; The Book of Mormon and the Constitution by H. Verlan Andersen

Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley

It should be noted that there are political anarchists, both of the libertarian variety and the socialist variety who both claim Mormon principles and are members of the LDS church.

Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right by Matthew L. Harris; Thunder From Right, ed. by Matthew L. Harris

In Sacred Loneliness by Todd Compton

Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? Sandra and Jerald Tanner

Miscellaneous:

John Locke (also, on British empiricism: here, here)

Thomas Jefferson - e.g. here and here (original letters)

Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary by Kevin Gutzman

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood

Did America Have a Christian Founding? by Mark David Hall (also here); also see One Nation Under God? by John Wilsey

The Myth of American Individualism by Barry Alan Shain; also see The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by Jack Greene

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen; see also The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest

Resources:

The Triumphal Entry; and City of God (WHI)

The Gospel of Matthew (TNICNT) by R.T. France

The Gospel According to John (PNTC) by D.A. Carson

On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine

The Trinity: An Introduction by Scott Swain

Slave of Christ: A New Testament metaphor for total devotion to Christ by Murray J. Harris

Christ Is King by Joshua Jipp

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution; Strange New World; Republocrat by Carl Trueman

Five Proofs of the Existence of God by Edward Feser; see also Christian Theistic Evidences by Cornelius Van Til

The Bible Among the Myths by John Oswalt

In Defense of the Eschaton by William Dennison

New Testament History by F.F. Bruce

OT afterlife: here, and here

Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen

Core Christianity; Christless Christianity by Michael Horton (also here and here)

American Gospel: Christ Crucified

What is the Gospel? (Voddie Baucham)

Active and Passive Obedience of Christ (Simply Put)

Grace and Glory by Geerhadus Vos (also here)

The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God by D.A. Carson

How the Nations Rage: Rethinking Faith and Politics in a Divided Age by Jonathan Leeman

Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World by Patrick Schreiner

American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time by Joshua Mitchell

In Search of the City on a Hill by Richard Gamble

Augustine and the Limits of Politics by Jean Bethike Elshtain