My father Blake Ostler is a well-known Mormon Theologian and Scholar (In a addition to being a full-time attorney ) Over the years he has written several articles for scholarly Mormon publications such as Dialogue, FARMS, Sunstone Mag, Element, and others.

What I want to do is take the complex issues in these books and discuss them in a way that makes sense to the average listener. So this is sort of going to be like taking me to school on a lot of these issues and topics.

For the most part we will go chapter by chapter of each book starting with the first one: The Attributes of God

However I wanted to start off with an episode of getting to know Blake Ostler. His background, journey and motivations for writing these books and so forth.

Exploring Mormon Thought

001-Interview with Blake Ostler

We discuss my fathers Atonement Theory "The Compassion Theory of Atonement" and what its basic tenants are.

Topics:
• God’s Compassion in Atonement
• Reconciling Humans to God
•  Reconciling God to Humans
• Christ’s Suffering as a Result of Our Sins

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Exploring Mormon Thought is a weekly podcast that features discussions about Mormon Doctrine and Theology that correlate with topics in the books series of the same name written by scholar and theologian Blake Ostler

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Exploring Mormon Thought

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