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词条 George W. Pace
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  1. Biography

      Career    McConkie criticism    Afterward  

  2. Published works

      Audio recordings  

  3. References

  4. External links

George Wendell Pace (born 1929)[1] was an American professor of religion at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. He was a popular writer and speaker on religion in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and is known for being publicly criticized by Apostle Bruce R. McConkie in 1982.

Biography

Pace is one of twelve children born to Agnes Judd and Presley D. Pace in Burley, Idaho. He was raised in the town, where his father served as Sheriff for a time.[2] As a young man and a member of the LDS Church, Pace served a proselyting mission in western Canada.[3]

In the late 1940s Pace studied at Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, where he also ran cross-country.[4] While later attending BYU, Pace met and married Diane Carman of Portland, Oregon, with whom he would have 12 children.[5][6]

In the LDS Church, Pace would serve in various callings throughout his life, including as a Sunday School teacher in Provo, Utah,[5] a high councilor, a branch president at the Missionary Training Center, a stake presidency councilor, and a stake president.[6]

Career

Pace had decided to teach LDS religion after several spiritual experiences.[6] After graduating from BYU in Political Science, he returned to his hometown of Burley to teach LDS Seminary in 1956, living on the family farm.[3][5][6]

In 1961 Pace was appointed as the first director of the Institute of Religion adjacent to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado,[3][6] where he then completed his master's degree.[5] In 1964 Pace became director of the Institute in Palo Alto, California, adjacent to Stanford University.[7] Pace was accepted into the religion faculty at BYU in 1967[6] and completed his master's degree in 1968[8] and his doctorate in religious education in 1976.[6]

As one of the most popular BYU professors, next to Stephen Covey, Pace regularly drew attendees larger than his actual class size.[9] In 1978, BYU students named him Professor of the Year[6] and he was known for spending large amounts of time helping students.[10] Pace was also a popular speaker in BYU's Education Week and Know Your Religion programs, and had several motivational talks recorded and sold on cassette tapes.[6]

Pace was one of the few BYU faculty to vigorously oppose the appointment of Leonard J. Arrington as the LDS Church's historian; Arrington was the first Church Historian with professional academic qualifications and to not not also hold a high place in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. In September 1976, with Apostle Ezra Taft Benson's assistant William Nelson, Pace wrote an anonymous critique of The Story of the Latter-day Saints as insufficiently reverential, which Benson and Mark E. Petersen then used to attack Arrington specifically and the professional attitude of the history department generally in a meeting with the first presidency on Sept 21st.[11] It was decided that the volume would not be advertised by the church-owned publisher, Deseret Book, and all future manuscripts of the department must be read by an apostle before publication. Howard W. Hunter was in charge of the History Department at the time, resented being circumvented, and privately told Arrington he felt that Benson and Petersen's suggestion of concealing historical fact and adopting a uniformly providentialist point-of-view would have been "unethical and immoral" in a court of law. On November 24, Arrington learned that president Spencer W. Kimball had read the entire book himself, found nothing objectionable, and quietly removed all restrictions on marketing or endorsing the book.[11]

McConkie criticism

In 1982, Bruce R. McConkie, an apostle in the LDS Church, presented a televised sermon at BYU that was interpreted as an attack on Pace's book, What It Means to Know Christ.[12] In his sermon, McConkie did not mention Pace or his book by name,[13] though he excerpted a quote which he called "plain sectarian nonsense", and warned against developing a special spiritual relationship with Jesus Christ, apart from the Holy Ghost and God the Father. McConkie felt this was a "gospel hobby" that could lead to "an unwholesome holier-than-thou attitude" or "despondence". McConkie said he didn't intend to "downgrade" Jesus, but to teach true doctrine and warn his audience.[14] McConkie later claimed he wasn't singling out or specifically thinking of Pace, but was warning against a general trend of "extreme behavior" of born-again type experiences.[15]

According to his son, Pace was personally devastated and saw this as a public condemnation and rebuke. He removed his book from the market, lost his church position as stake president, and had a dramatic drop in class enrollment.[12][16] Pace issued a formal apology in which he stated that his opinions may be misinterpreted, and he was glad that McConkie had clarified the issues. Pace wanted "to stay in the mainstream of the Church" and remain loyal to its leadership.[6] In contrast, Pace's son cited the controversy as disillusioning him toward his religious leaders and motivating him to leave the LDS Church.[16]

Some have speculated that McConkie was reprimanded for downplaying Christ's importance and was asked to reemphasize Jesus in his future teachings.[6]

Afterward

After the fallout from the McConkie incident, Pace still retained his BYU religious professorship and served in leadership positions in the church. He served for a time as a professor at the BYU Jerusalem Center.[17] Remembered as an effective teacher, in 2000 BYU Magazine printed his nomination for professor of the century.[10] In the early 2000s Pace and his wife were overseeing BYU's China Teachers Program, which arranges for retired educators from BYU to teach at Chinese universities.[18][19]

Pace also continued publishing and public speaking in the LDS community.[6] His work was published in an official LDS Church magazine and in the church-sanctioned Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Though originally published by Council Press, Pace's criticized book What It Means to Know Christ was even republished in 1988 by the church's own publisher, Deseret Book, as a new edition retitled Our Search to Know the Lord.[20] The work remains in print under the name Knowing Christ, published by Cedar Fort, Inc. As a public speaker, Pace has addressed addiction recovery programs[21][22] and religious topics into the late 1990s.[23][24][25]

Published works

In 1975, Pace compiled a book of faith-promoting experiences entitled The Faith of Young Mormons.[6][26]

In 1981, Pace published What it Means to Know Christ, which sold very well.[6] After Bruce R. McConkie's public criticisms, Pace revised the book and published it as Our Search to Know the Lord in 1988, and Knowing Christ in 1996.[27] Pace was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism in 1992.[28]

The following is a list of Pace's works:

  • {{cite book

| author = Pace, George W.
| title = The Diary of John D. Lee (1846); An Edited Sample
| series = [paper written for Church History 543]
| date = c. 1967
| location = Provo, Utah
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = The Evolution of Political Parties in Utah--1848-1905
| series = [written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Religion 543]
| date = c. 1968
| location = Provo, Utah
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = What it Means to Know Christ
| title = California Know Your Religion Speeches, 1973-74
| pages = 77–104
| year = 1973
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = Living by the Spirit
| title = California Know Your Religion Speeches, 1971-72
| pages = 41–68
| year = 1974
}}
  • {{cite journal

| author = ——
| title = What It Means to Know Christ
| journal = Ensign
| date = September 1974
| page = 42
| url = http://www.lds.org/ensign/1974/09/what-it-means-to-know-christ
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = The Faith of Young Mormons
| year = 1975
| publisher = Communications Workshop; A Division of Milo Baughman Design, Inc
| location = Provo, Utah
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = Developing a Personal Relationship with the Savior
| title = BYU Speeches of the Year
| pages = 169–185
| year = 1975
| series = [BYU devotional address given July 15, 1975]
| url = http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6077
}}
  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = The Effectiveness of Mission Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints as Measured by Six Selected Criteria
| series = [doctoral thesis]
| publisher = Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University
| year = 1976
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = What it Means to Know Christ
| publisher = Council Press
| location = Provo, Utah
| year = 1981
| isbn = 0-936860-05-7
}}
  • {{cite journal

| author = ——
| title = Q&A: Questions and Answers: How can I grow and develop confidence in my ability to use my free agency if I’m supposed to get to the point where the Holy Ghost guides my every decision—or am I misunderstanding something?
| journal = New Era
| date = November 1983
| page = 11
| url = http://www.lds.org/new-era/1983/11/qa-questions-and-answers
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = A New Commandment
| title = Principles of the Gospel in Practice
| series = [13th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Brigham Young University]
| publisher = Randall Book Co.
| location = Salt Lake City, Utah
| year = 1985
| pages = 135–146
| isbn = 0-934126-76-3
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = Our Search to Know the Lord
| publisher = Deseret Book
| location = Salt Lake City, Utah
| year = 1988
| isbn = 978-0-87579-136-4
| series = [new edition of What it Means to Know Christ]
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = Kingdom of God
| title = Encyclopedia of Mormonism
| volume = 2
| year = 1992
| publisher = Macmillan
| chapter-url= http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Kingdom_of_God
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| chapter = Doctrine and Covenants: Section 1
| title = Encyclopedia of Mormonism
| volume = 1
| year = 1992
| publisher = Macmillan
| chapter-url= http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Doctrine_and_Covenants#Doctrine_and_Covenants:_Section_1
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = Knowing Christ
| publisher = Cedar Fort
| location = Springville, Utah
| year = 1996
| isbn = 0-87579-136-0
| edition = 3rd
| series = [new edition of Our Search to Know the Lord]
}}
  • {{cite book

| author = ——
| title = Knowing Christ
| publisher = Cedar Fort
| location = Springville, Utah
| year = 2007
| isbn = 1-55517-261-X
| series = [paperback]
| url = https://books.google.com/?id=KYVQChiz5n0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1
}}

Audio recordings

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = George W. Pace, Live on Cassettes
| series = 3 audio cassettes
| publisher = Covenant Recordings
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1980

}}.[29]

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = Ten Commandments of Prayer
| series = 2 audio cassettes
| publisher = Covenant Recordings
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1980

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = From Fatherhood to Godhood
| series = Sound recording
| date = June 11, 1981
| publisher = Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = The Second Coming
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Recordings
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1986

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = The Atonement
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Recordings
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1987
| isbn = 1-55503-232-X

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = Power, Principles & Programs
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Recordings
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1988

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = Come Unto Christ; The Holy Ghost, the Gift of Gifts
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Communications
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1990
| isbn = 1-55503-248-6

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = How to Defuse the Dynamite in Dating
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Communications
| location = Salt Lake City
| year = 1990
| isbn = 1-55503-268-0

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = A Savior-Centered Marriage
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Communications
| year = 1998

}}.

  • {{Cite book

| author = ——
| title = A Perfect Brightness of Hope
| series = audio cassette
| publisher = Covenant Communications
| year = 1998

}}.

References

1. ^{{cite web | title=Our search to know the Lord / George W. Pace. | work=Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) | publisher=United States Copyright Office | url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=13&ti=1,13&Search_Arg=pace%20george&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=6LJcVjg2HbLCay9SJdNbOfoUtJs0&SEQ=20090617153354&SID=2 | accessdate=2009-06-17}}
2. ^{{cite news | title=Agnes Judd Pace | work=Deseret News | date=February 11, 1939 | location=Salt Lake City | page=16 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IJEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GlcEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george%20pace&pg=4578%2C4805853 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
3. ^{{cite news | title=Seminary Instructors Placed in Three States | work=Church News | date=June 17, 1961 | publisher=Deseret News | page=15 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GdIjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D0oDAAAAIBAJ&dq=george%20pace&pg=4751%2C3706972 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
4. ^{{cite news | title=Aggie Skiers Sight Meets | work=Deseret News | location=Salt Lake City | date=January 30, 1949 | page=C4 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=L-8bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ylcEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george%20pace&pg=3916%2C6380535 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
5. ^{{cite journal | author = George W. Pace | title = What It Means to Know Christ | journal = Ensign | date = September 1974 | page = 42 | url = http://www.lds.org/ensign/1974/09/what-it-means-to-know-christ}}
6. ^10 11 12 13 {{cite book |author= Anderson, Lavina Fielding | authorlink= Lavina Fielding Anderson |chapter= Context and Analysis: "You Have Heard True Doctrine Taught": Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s 1981-82 Addresses |editor= Lavina Fielding Anderson, Janice Merrill Allred |title= Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance |volume= 2 |year= 1996 |publisher= Mormon Alliance |location= Salt Lake City, Utah |url= http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/volume2/part2/v2p2c06.htm |accessdate= 2009-06-17 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090626232039/http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/volume2/part2/v2p2c06.htm |archivedate= 2009-06-26 }}
7. ^{{cite news | title=Three LDS Institutes Greet New Directors | work=Church News | publisher=Deseret News | date=April 24, 1964 | page=12 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bjMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=algEAAAAIBAJ&dq=george%20pace&pg=6065%2C5878652 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
8. ^{{cite web | title=The evolution of political parties in Utah--1848-1905 | work=iLink BYU Online Catalog | publisher=Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University | url=http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/123/?srchfield1=TI^TITLE^SERIES^^keyword+anywhere&query_type=keyword&user_id=WEBSERVER&new_gatewaydb=ILINK&library=ALL&searchdata1=The%20evolution%20of%20political%20parties%20in%20Utah--1848-1905 | accessdate=2009-08-25}}
9. ^{{cite web | author=Dr. B | title=George W. Pace: Reactions to Recent Wikipedia Entry | work=Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord | date=August 12, 2008 | url=http://mormonmission.blogspot.com/2008/08/george-w-pace-reactions-to-recent.html}}
10. ^{{cite journal | title=Professors of the Century, Part II | journal=BYU Magazine | date=Spring 2000 | url=http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=1138 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
11. ^{{cite book|last1=Arrington|first1=Leonard J|editor1-last=Bergera|editor1-first=Gary James|title=Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington|date=2017|publisher=Signature Books|location=Salt Lake City, UT|pages=Volume 2, 9/6/76, 9/21/76, 10/22/76}}
12. ^{{cite book |author= Quinn, D. Michael |authorlink= D. Michael Quinn |chapter= Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996 |title= The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power |year= 1997 |publisher= Signature Books | location= Salt Lake City | isbn= 1-56085-060-4}}
13. ^{{cite news |title= Apostle Attacks Personal Relationship With Christ |work= Salt Lake City Messenger |publisher= Utah Lighthouse Ministry |date= July 1982 |issue= 48 |url= http://www.utlm.org/newsletters/no48.htm#Apostle |accessdate= 2009-06-17}}
14. ^{{Cite book |author= McConkie, Bruce R. |authorlink= Bruce R. McConkie |title= Our Relationship with the Lord |date= March 2, 1982 |publisher= Brigham Young University |location= Provo, Utah |url= http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6843 |accessdate= 2009-06-17}}
15. ^{{cite web |author= Dr. B |title= Bruce R. McConkie: Missionary Extraordinaire |work= Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord |date= March 12, 2008 |url= http://mormonmission.blogspot.com/2008/03/bruce-r-mcconkie-missionary.html}}
16. ^{{cite book |author= Pace, David G. |chapter= McConkie and Dad: Memories, Dreams, and a Rejection: A Personal Essay |editor= Lavina Fielding Anderson, Janice Merrill Allred | title= Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance | volume=2 | year=1996 | publisher=Mormon Alliance |location= Salt Lake City, Utah |url= http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/volume2/part2/v2p2c05.htm |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100115083610/http://mormonalliance.org/casereports/volume2/part2/v2p2c05.htm |archivedate= 2010-01-15}}
17. ^Church News, February 13, 1993
18. ^{{cite web | author=Wittenberg, Uriel | title=Wrongdoing by American Mormons in China | date=June 2002 | url=http://urielw.com/byu.htm | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
19. ^{{cite web | title=China Teachers Program | work=David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies | publisher=Brigham Young University | url=http://kennedy.byu.edu/chinateachers/ | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
20. ^{{cite news | title=Holiday Gift Express | work=Deseret News | format=Advertisement | page=6B | date=November 13, 1988 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BjcpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I4QDAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22george%20pace%22&pg=3706%2C5243480 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
21. ^{{cite news | title=Conference Saturday for 12-step group | work=Deseret News | date=May 12, 1994 | url=http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/352742/CONFERENCE-SATURDAY-FOR-12-STEP-GROUP.html | accessdate=2009-06-17}}
22. ^{{cite news | title=Heart t' Heart LDS group plans conference Sept. 19 | work=Deseret News | date=September 12, 1998 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/651488/Heart-tapos-Heart-LDS-group-plans-conference-Sept-19.html | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
23. ^{{cite news | title=BYU Professor of Religion Speaks July 28 in Springville | work=Deseret News | date=July 20, 1996 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/502981/BYU-PROFESSOR-OF-RELIGION-SPEAKS-JULY-28-IN-SPRINGVILLE.html | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
24. ^{{cite news | title=BYU Education Days to Help Strengthen Families | work=Deseret News | date=June 17, 1994 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/359517/BYU-EDUCATION-DAYS-TO-HELP-STRENGTHEN-FAMILIES.html | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
25. ^{{cite news | title=BYU Professor to Discuss 'Land Where Jesus Walked' | work=Deseret News | date=January 28, 1997 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/540105/BYU-PROFESSOR-TO-DISCUSS-LAND-WHERE-JESUS-WALKEDapos.html | accessdate=2010-02-09}}
26. ^"FYI: For Your Information", New Era, January 1976.
27. ^{{cite web | title=Search Results | work=iLink BYU Online Catalog | publisher=Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University | url=http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/123/?srchfield1=GENERAL^COMBINED^GENERAL^^keyword+anywhere&query_type=keyword&user_id=WEBSERVER&new_gatewaydb=ILINK&library=ALL&searchdata1=0875791360 | accessdate=2009-06-17}}
28. ^FAIR Topical Guide: Doctrine & Covenants
29. ^{{cite news | title=New Recordings for LDS Listeners | work=Church News | publisher=Deseret News | date=March 8, 1980 | page=14 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V90oAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V4MDAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22george%20pace%22&pg=5651%2C2156429 | accessdate=2010-02-09}}

External links

  • [https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/george-w-pace_developing-personal-relationship-savior/ 1975 BYU Devotional talk by Pace]
  • Church Magazine article
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