Why may a student count only four hours of Religion credit each semester toward graduation?
As mentioned above, Religious Education at BYU exists to assist students in gaining a balanced education. This is best accomplished by pursuing one’s formal gospel study in a consistent, ongoing manner, rather than “loading up” on religion classes in a few semesters in order to fill the 14-hour requirement. President Gordon B. Hinckley, in his dedicatory prayer on the new Joseph Smith Memorial Building on 10 December 1991, said: “We pray for those who will walk its halls and sit in its classrooms, that their minds may be enlightened, that their understanding may be quickened, that they may learn those things which will bless their lives in the world of which they will become a part, and, in a more particular way, that they may become familiar with the truth which is eternal in its nature and everlasting in its consequences. “Bless the faculty who will teach here that they may be qualified through scholarship to do so effectively, but, more important, that they may teach by the power of
