Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Church and Praxis
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199794936 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bostwick Chair of English and is Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century studies and the Bible's influence on Western literature. He holds the Jabez A. Givens did graduate work at Cornell University in intellectual history and a
R. Baird said I found it to be extremely well written.. I found it to be extremely well written. A broadly aimed critical survey of Christianity and where mormons fit the scene
Givens is best described as a historian, theologian, philosopher, sociologist, or literary critic. N. He also is a master stylist who knows how to render abstract ideas in language meaningful to specialists and ordinary readers alike. Robinson, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford"Givens is to be commended not only for producing the first major systematic overview of Mormon theology, but also for taking a historically informed, comparative approach that both Latter-day Saints and scholars of religion will find highly illuminating."--Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. Feeding the Flock is a distinguished contribution to the major body of studies of America's lar
Despite the stigmatizing fascination with its social innovations (polygamy, communalism), its stark supernaturalism (angels, gold plates, and seer stones), and its most esoteric aspects (a New World Garden of Eden, sacred undergarments), as well as its long-standing outlier status among American Protestants, Givens reminds us that Mormonism remains the most enduring-and thriving-product of the nineteenth-century's religious upheavals and innovations. The first book, Wrestling the Angel, centered on the theoretical foundations of Mormon thought and doctrine regarding God, humans, and salvation. Feeding the Flock considers Mormon practice, the authority of the institution of the church and its priesthood, forms of worship, and the function and nature of spiritual gifts in the church's history, revealing that Mormonism is still a tradition very much in the process of formation.At once original and provocative, engaging and learned, Givens offers the most sustained account of Mormon thought and practice yet written.. Givens's landmark study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, traces the essential contours of Mormon practice as it developed from Joseph Smith to the present. Givens has structured these volumes in a way that recognizes the implicit logic of Mormon thought. Because Mormonism is founded on a radically unconventional c