Marie K. Hafen

Marie K. Hafen is the co-author, with her husband Bruce C. Hafen, of Faith is Not Blind — the book whose central argument, in Kyle’s synthesis, is that mature faith runs through complexity rather than around it. The book’s first-person narration is shared between the two authors; one passage recounts how “Dillon, Marie, and I and our classmates” lived out what Catholic sociologist Thomas O’Dea called “Mormonism’s most significant problem” — the collision between a literalistic, authoritative religion and the skepticism fostered by university study. Her authorial voice is part of the book’s lived “ideal vs. real” framing of belief.

Context: Marie K. Hafen is a Latter-day Saint author and educator who has written and spoken on women, faith, and gospel scholarship, often in collaboration with her husband Bruce C. Hafen, an emeritus General Authority Seventy.

Where this appears

• Faith is Not Blind — co-author with Bruce C. Hafen; her shared narration anchors the book’s “ideal vs. real” theology of believing through complexity.