he is mentioned less and less. I can't find his Mormon Doctrine book in Deseret Book or even the D.I.'s I visit. I admired McConkie's black or white thinking until my shelf broke, and then I saw how shallow and prideful his approach was. Revisiting talks by McConkie, Packer, and Mark Peterson was a shelf crusher. He did confess publicly at BYU that he had spoken with limited knowledge, but then he turned on his audience and basically said, "Get in line."
Does anyone else see any benefit the Church got out of McConkie in the years he was a major player, or after?
