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Envisioning BYU

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INTRODUCTION/OVERVIEW

Volume Two PDF
A Note from BYU President C. Shane Reese

FOREWORD

PREFACE

A Certain Idea of BYU

Justin Collings

February 1, 2022

A House of Faith and Learning

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“Seek learning, even by study and also by faith. . . . And establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.”

—Doctrine and Covenants 88:118–19

“A House of Faith”

Dallin H. Oaks—first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dallin H. Oaks

August 31, 1977

“I Say unto You, Be One”

Boyd K. Packer - Mormon Apostle

Boyd K. Packer

February 12, 1991

“Teach Ye Diligently and My Grace Shall Attend You”

Bruce C. Hafen

Bruce C. Hafen

August 25, 1993

Lift Up Thine Eyes to the Mountains

Kristine Hansen

Kristine Hansen

July 3, 2001

Learning by Heart

Susan W. Tanner

Susan W. Tanner

August 12, 2004

The Academic Anableps

Bonnie Brinton

Bonnie Brinton

February 27, 2009

“That All May Be Edified of All”

John S. Tanner

John S. Tanner

August 24, 2010

Paired Aspirations

James R. Rasband

James R. Rasband

August 28, 2017

A House of Faith and Learning

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“Seek learning, even by study and also by faith. . . . And establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.”

—Doctrine and Covenants 88:118–19

A Unique Light

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“There are many ways in which BYU can tower above other universities—not simply because of the size of its student body or its beautiful campus spread out below magnificent mountains but by the unique light BYU can send forth into the educational world.”

—Spencer W. Kimball

The Church University

David O. McKay - Mormon Prophet and Apostle

David O. McKay

October 3, 1937

Why a University in the Kingdom?

Elder Neal A. Maxwell, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ.

Neal A. Maxwell

October 1, 1975

Installation of and Charge to the President

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Spencer W. Kimball

November 14, 1980

Challenges to the Mission of Brigham Young University

Dallin H. Oaks—first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dallin H. Oaks

April 21, 2017

BYU: A Unique Kind of Education

President Kevin J Worthen

Kevin J Worthen

August 28, 2017

“Look unto Me in Every Thought; Doubt Not, Fear Not”

David A. Bednar, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

David A. Bednar

April 16, 2021

An Obligation to the World

President Kevin J Worthen

Kevin J Worthen

August 23, 2021

On the Uniqueness of BYU

C. Shane Reese, President, BYU

C. Shane Reese

August 23, 2021

Dare to Be Different: Preserving the Distinctive Light of Religious Universities

Elder Clark G. Gilbert of the Quorum of the Seventy

Clark G. Gilbert

February 8, 2022

Going Forward in the Second Century

Dallin H. Oaks—first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dallin H. Oaks

September 13, 2022

A Unique Light

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On Learning and Light at BYU

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“We have a marvelous promise for expansion of our ways of knowing: the magnification of the soul, body, and spirit and intelligence—light and truth—in each of us. Thus God’s glory is the growth of our intelligence, our unique light, the original matter of our very being.”

—Elaine S. Marshall

On Learning and Light at BYU

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Afterword

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“Our task, I submit, is to claim in our day the prophecies of the past.”

—C. Shane Reese

Becoming BYU: An Inaugural Response

C. Shane Reese, President, BYU

C. Shane Reese

September 19, 2023

“Lord God of Hosts, Be with Us Yet”

Elder D. Todd Christofferson, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

D. Todd Christofferson

September 19, 2023

Afterword

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