Book Description: Doing theology is like building a comically
circuitous Rube Goldberg machine: you spend your time tinkering
together an unnecessarily complicated, impractical, and ingenious
apparatus for doing things that are, in themselves, simple. But
there is a kind of joy in theology s gratuity, there is a pleasure
in its comedic machination, and ultimately if the balloon pops, the
hamster spins, the chain pulls, the bucket empties, the pulley
lifts, and (voila ) the book s page is turned some measurable kind
of work is accomplished. But this work is a byproduct. The beauty
of the machine, like all beauty, is for its own sake. This book is
itself a Rube Goldberg machine, pieced together from a variety of
essays written over the past ten years. They offer explicit
reflections on what it means to practice theology as a modern
Mormon scholar and they stake out substantial and original
positions on the nature of the atonement, the soul, testimony,
eternal marriage, humanism, and the historicity of the Book of
Mormon. Praise for Rube Goldberg Machines: Adam Miller is the most
original and provocative Latter-day Saint theologian practicing
today. Richard Bushman, author of "Joseph Smith: Rough Stone
Rolling"
Miller is a theologian of the ordinary, thinking about our
ordinary beliefs in very non-ordinary ways while never insisting
that the ordinary become extra-ordinary. James Faulconer, Richard
L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding, Brigham Young University
Rube Goldberg Machines is one of the best and most important
commentaries on the gospel and on life itself that I have ever
read. Thomas F. Rogers, "BYU Studies Quarterly"
Rube Golberg is a landmark work in the world of Mormon theology.
Kirk Caudle, "The Mormon Book Review"
A theology of pure immanency is what Adam s given us and I can
only hope that Mormon theology will never be the same again. Clark
Goble, Mormon Metaphysics
This is great theology in all the right ways, but you ll have to
read it yourselves to get a taste for its power. Buy the book and
read it. Seriously. Samuel Brown, author of In Heaven as It Is On
Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Adam Miller s Rube Goldberg Theology is full of ingenious, even
dazzling formulations, and of lovely, often bracing and sometimes
startling insights. Ralph Hancock, SquareTwo
It is a work of truly great theology that only could have been
contrived ... by a brilliant Mormon. Brad Kramer, By Common Consent
Miller s Rube Goldberg theology is nothing like anything done in
the Mormon tradition before. Blake Ostler, author of the Exploring
Mormon Thought series About the Author: Adam S. Miller is a
professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He is
the author of Badiou, Marion, and St. Paul: Immanent Grace and
Speculative Grace: An Experiment with Bruno Latour in
Object-Oriented Theology, editor of An Experiment on the Word:
Reading Alma 32, and director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.
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