Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology

by Adam S. Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589581938
• ISBN13: 9781589581937
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Greg Kofford Books, Inc.
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"