Terryl L. Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion and James A. Bostwick Chair of English at the University of Richmond. His books on Mormonism and American religious culture include By the Hand of Mormon, People of Paradox, Parley P. Pratt (with Matthew Grow), and Viper on the Hearth.

Givens has embraced a certain reading of the Mormon intellectual project and has found the tools of the academy a means for its expression...Therefore, scholarship is an essential tool for fully comprehending Mormonism's truths. These moments reveal that Givens is as much a Mormon intellectual as a scholar of Mormonism, and like Lowry Nelson or Juanita Brooks has taken upon himself the task of vitalizing his tradition by healing the wound ripped open in the Arrington era.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Preface ; MATTER AND METHOD ; 1. Historical Prelude ; 2. Mormonism and Theology ; 3. The Theology of Restoration ; THE CONTENT ; 4. A Short Primer on Mormonism ; COSMOLOGY ; 5. Eternalism ; 6. Monism ; 7. Intelligence and Law ; THE DIVINE ; 8. The Godhead ; 9. Revealer God ; 10. Vulnerable God ; 11. Embodied God ; 12. Mother God ; 13. Adam-God ; 14. Christology ; 15. Holy Ghost ; 16. Other Beings ; THE HUMAN ; 17. Premortality ; 18. The Fall ; 19. Embodiment ; 20. Salvation ; 21. Theosis

Terryl L. Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion and James A. Bostwick Chair of English at the University of Richmond. His books on Mormonism and American religious culture include By the Hand of Mormon, People of Paradox, Parley P. Pratt (with Matthew Grow), and Viper on the Hearth.

Givens has embraced a certain reading of the Mormon intellectual project and has found the tools of the academy a means for its expression...Therefore, scholarship is an essential tool for fully comprehending Mormonism's truths. These moments reveal that Givens is as much a Mormon intellectual as a scholar of Mormonism, and like Lowry Nelson or Juanita Brooks has taken upon himself the task of vitalizing his tradition by healing the wound ripped open in the Arrington era.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Preface ; MATTER AND METHOD ; 1. Historical Prelude ; 2. Mormonism and Theology ; 3. The Theology of Restoration ; THE CONTENT ; 4. A Short Primer on Mormonism ; COSMOLOGY ; 5. Eternalism ; 6. Monism ; 7. Intelligence and Law ; THE DIVINE ; 8. The Godhead ; 9. Revealer God ; 10. Vulnerable God ; 11. Embodied God ; 12. Mother God ; 13. Adam-God ; 14. Christology ; 15. Holy Ghost ; 16. Other Beings ; THE HUMAN ; 17. Premortality ; 18. The Fall ; 19. Embodiment ; 20. Salvation ; 21. Theosis

Terryl L. Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion and James A. Bostwick Chair of English at the University of Richmond. His books on Mormonism and American religious culture include By the Hand of Mormon, People of Paradox, Parley P. Pratt (with Matthew Grow), and Viper on the Hearth.

Givens has embraced a certain reading of the Mormon intellectual project and has found the tools of the academy a means for its expression...Therefore, scholarship is an essential tool for fully comprehending Mormonism's truths. These moments reveal that Givens is as much a Mormon intellectual as a scholar of Mormonism, and like Lowry Nelson or Juanita Brooks has taken upon himself the task of vitalizing his tradition by healing the wound ripped open in the Arrington era.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS ; Preface ; MATTER AND METHOD ; 1. Historical Prelude ; 2. Mormonism and Theology ; 3. The Theology of Restoration ; THE CONTENT ; 4. A Short Primer on Mormonism ; COSMOLOGY ; 5. Eternalism ; 6. Monism ; 7. Intelligence and Law ; THE DIVINE ; 8. The Godhead ; 9. Revealer God ; 10. Vulnerable God ; 11. Embodied God ; 12. Mother God ; 13. Adam-God ; 14. Christology ; 15. Holy Ghost ; 16. Other Beings ; THE HUMAN ; 17. Premortality ; 18. The Fall ; 19. Embodiment ; 20. Salvation ; 21. Theosis