Mormons and the Bible

The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Philip L. Barlow offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken to the Bible by major Mormon leaders, from its beginnings to the present. He shows that Mormon attitudes toward the Bible comprise an extraordinary mix of conservative, liberal, and radical ingredients: an almost fundamentalist adherence to the King James Version co-exists with belief in the possibility of new revelation and surprising ideas about the limits of human language. Barlow's exploration takes important steps toward unraveling the mystery of this quintessential American religious phenomenon. This updated edition of Mormons and the Bible includes an extended bibliography and a new preface, casting Joseph Smith's mission into a new frame and treating evolutions in Mormonism's biblical usage in recent decades.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-27
Mått:137 x 206 x 27 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199739035
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Mormon History Association's Frances M. and Emily S. Chipman Award of Excellence

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Philip L. Barlow is Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University. His books include The Oxford Handbook to Mormonism (co-edited with Terryl Givens, forthcoming, 2013), The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (OUP 2000, co-authored with Edwin Scott Gaustad) and, as co-editor with Mark Silk, Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America's Common Denominator? (2004). He is past president of the Mormon History Association.

Recensioner i media

Twenty-two years after it first appeared, Mormons and the Bible is as much a classic of American religious history broadly as of Mormonism narrowly.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface (1991) ; Preface (2013): Reinterpreting Joseph Smith and Pondering the Twenty-first Century ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; A Note on Mormon Organization and Nomenclature ; Introduction: The Bible in Antebellum America ; 1. Before Mormonism: Joseph Smith and the Bible, 1820-1830 ; 2. From the Birth of the Church to the Death of the Prophet ; 3. Diversity and Development: The Bible Moves West ; 4. The Mormon Response to Higher Criticism ; 5. Why the King James Version? ; 6. The Late Twentieth Century [will need to be corrected in chapter headings] ; Summary: The Ambiguities of a New Religious Tradition ; Select Bibliography ; Select Bibliography since 1991 ; Index