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Temple Theology: An Introduction. By Margaret Barker, Dean W. Collinwood, James W. Mcconkie

BYU Studies

Margaret Barker. Temple Theology: An Introduction. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2004.

An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity – By Laura Nasrallah [Review Of The Book An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity By L. Nasrallah], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

Nasrallah’s book is a valuable contribution to the study of prophecy and ecstatic manifestations in early Christianity, for its reading of representative Christian texts within the larger context of debates about such phenomena in the Greco-Roman world, and for viewing the materials through the lens of rhetorical criticism. Nasrallah focuses on three texts or authors: Paul’s discussion of the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians, Tertullian’s defense of prophecy in De anima and related texts, and the Anti-Phrygian source, Nasrallah’s name for the late second—early-third-century source probably embedded in Epiphanius’ Panarion. Nasrallah argues that taxonomies of forms of …

Evolution: The Remarkable History Of A Scientific Theory By Edward J. Larson; Evolution And Mormonism: A Quest For Understanding By Trent D. Stephens And D. Jeffrey Meldrum With Forrest B. Peterson, William E. Evenson

BYU Studies

Edward J. Larson. Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. New York: The Modern Library, 2004.

Trent D. Stephens and D. Jeffrey Meldrum with Forrest B. Peterson. Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

David O. Mckay And The Rise Of Modern Mormonism. By Gregory A. Prince And William Robert Wright, James B. Allen

BYU Studies

Gregory A. Prince and William Robert Wright. David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2005.

The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography – By Virginia Burrus [Review Of The Book The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography By V. Burrus], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

In the difficult yet rewarding book Burrus offers “countererotic” readings of fourth- and fifth-century CE hagiographies in which she challenges understandings that take ascetic lives of saints as sublimating sexual desire; rather, Burrus reads these texts as the site of an “exuberant eroticism” that constantly relocates and displaces erotic desire. After an introductory chapter, Burrus first focuses on Jerome’s “queer” Lives of Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion. A second chapter treats the eroticized lives of three women: Jerome’s friend Paula, Gregory of Nyssa’s sister Macrina, and Augustine’s mother, Monica. A third chapter focuses on several treatments of Martin of Tours in …

The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God. By Dallas Willard, Godfrey J. Ellis

BYU Studies

Dallas Willard. The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists And The Federal Legislation Of Morality, 1865-1920 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Foster, Gaines M. Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 9780807826973 (hardcover); 9780807853665 (pbk.)

Stephen Prothero American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon, Patrick Q. Mason

BYU Studies

Stephen Prothero. American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

Val D. Rust Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts And Their Colonial Ancestors, Jenny Hale Pulsipher

BYU Studies

Val D. Rust. Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Val D. Rust Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts And Their Colonial Ancestors, Stephen J. Fleming

BYU Studies

Val D. Rust. Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Naomi Schaefer Riley God On The Quad: How Religious Colleges And The Missionary Generation Are Changing America, Patrick Q. Mason

BYU Studies

Naomi Schaefer Riley. God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005

The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, And The Culture Of Modern Liberalism (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Rieser, Andrew C. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Lilberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780231126427

[Review Of The Book The Reception Of Luke And Acts In The Period Before Irenaeus: Looking For Luke In The Second Century, By A. Gregory], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

In this book, a revision of the author's 2001 Oxford dissertation, Andrew Gregory has set for himself the daunting task of determining when we can definitively say that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are being used by later Christian authors. The greatest contribution of this book is that it treats in one study a broad range of texts and scholarly discussion on this question–according to the author, the first time this has been done.

Desert Patriarchy: Mormon And Mennonite Communities In The Chihuahua Valley By Janet Bennion, Mark Metzler Sawin

BYU Studies

Janet Bennion. Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

Reverence: Renewing A Forgotten Virtue By Paul Woodruff, George Bennion

BYU Studies

Paul Woodruff. Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Saving America? Faith-Based Services And The Future Of Civil Society (Book Review), Jim Vanderwoerd

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004), 354 pages.

Lost Christianities: The Battles For Scripture And The Faiths We Never Knew [Review Of The Book Lost Christianities: The Battles For Scripture And The Faiths We Never Knew By B. D. Ehrman], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

This book is an introduction to the basic content of non-canonical early Christian texts, exploring them both as evidence for the diversity of early Christianity and for what they can say about the formation of the New Testament canon. It is divided into three sections. The first uses the concept of forgery to introduce a number of important extra-canonical texts (including Gospel of Peter, the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, and the Secret Gospel of Mark). The second section takes a closer look at some of the different forms of Christianity …

The Curse Of Ham: Race And Slavery In Early Judaism, Christianity, And Islam By David M. Goldenberg And Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification Of American Slavery By Stephen R. Haynes, Stirling Adams

BYU Studies

David M. Goldenbert. The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Stephen R. Haynes. Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

By The Hand Of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched A World Religion By Terry L. Givens, Daniel C. Peterson

BYU Studies

Terryl L. Givens. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a World Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

By The Hand Of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched A World Religion By Terry L. Givens, Edward S. Cutler

BYU Studies

Terryl L. Givens. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a World Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Josef Fuchs On Natural Law. By Mark Graham (Book Review), Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Book review by Brian Stiltner.

Graham, M. (2002). Josef Fuchs on natural law. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

ISBN 9780878403820 (hardcover); 9781589013537 (ebook)

Under The Banner Of Heaven: A Story Of Violent Faith By Jon Krakauer, Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

BYU Studies

Jon Krakauer. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. New York: Doubleday, 2003.

Enduring Ties: Poems Of Family Relationships Ed. Grant Hardy, Lance Larsen

BYU Studies

Grant Hardy, ed., Enduring Ties: Poems of Family Relationships. South Royalton, Vermont: Steerforth, 2003.

Genevan Reformation And The American Founding (Book Review), Paul Otto

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: A review of David W. Hall, The Genevan Reformation and the American Founding. (Lanham: Lexington, 2003). Xiv, 484 pages.

Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life By Boyd Jay Petersen, Gary P. Gillum

BYU Studies

Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2002.

An Insider's View Of Mormon Origins By Grant H. Palmer, James B. Allen

BYU Studies

Grant H. Palmer, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002.

Review Of Religion And Rationality, By Jurgen Habermas, Nicholas Ruiz Iii

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Evangelicals And Politics In Asia, Africa And Latin America By Paul Freston, Henri Gooren

BYU Studies

Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

The Trial Of Don Pedro León Luján: The Attack Against Indian Slavery And Mexican Traders In Utah Sondra Jones, Jacqueline S. Thursby

BYU Studies

Sondra Jones. The Trial of Don Pedro León Luján: The Attack against Indian Slavery and Mexican Traders in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000.

The Openness Of God: A Biblical Challenge To The Traditional Understanding Of God Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, David Basinger; The God Who Risks: A Theology Of Providence John Sanders, David L. Paulsen, Matthew G. Fisher

BYU Studies

Clark Pinnock, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, David Basinger. The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1994.

John Sanders. The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1998.