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Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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410
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[2017 Association for Mormon Letters Finalist for Religious Nonfiction]
Feeding the Flock, the second volume of Terryl L. 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. 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.
Because Mormonism is founded on a radically unconventional cosmology, based on unusual doctrines of human nature, deity, and soteriology, a history of its development cannot use conventional theological categories. Givens has structured these volumes in a way that recognizes the implicit logic of Mormon thought. 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. -
A Book of Mormon Bibliography for 2017
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Jesus Christ, Son of Man: James J. Strang's Apologetic Christology
On Signifiers and Signified: Terryl Givens and Twenty-First-Century Book of Mormon Studies
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Remnant or Replacement? Outlining a Possible Apostasy Narrative
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The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition (book)
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
A History of the Priesthood from the Beginning of the World to the Present Time
An Address to All Believers in Christ. By a Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
An Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of New York; Letter to Queen Victoria; The Fountain of Knowledge; Immortality of the Body, and Intelligence and Affection
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An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
A Note on the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute
A 'Place Prepared' in the Rockies
Approaching Zion
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Banishing the Cross : The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo
Biography of Lorenzo Dow Young
Brigham Young : American Moses
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
Common People : Church Activity During the Brigham Young Era
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormon Patriarchy and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Early Quorums of the Seventies
Early Scenes in Church History
Enoch and the City of Zion : Can an Entire Community Ascend to Heaven?
Enoch the Prophet
Evidences and Reconciliations : Aids to Faith in a Modern Day
Evolving Faith : Wanderings of a Mormon biologist
Excommunication and Church Courts : A Note from the General Handbook of Instructions
Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon History
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
From Apostle to Apostate : The Personal Struggle of Amasa Mason Lyman
From Conferences to Councils : The Development of LDS Church Organization, 1830-1835
From Historian to Dissident : The Book of John Whitmer
Gleanings By the Way
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Heaven : A History
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of Utah
How We Got the Book of Moses
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In the Strength of the Lord : The Life and Teachings of James E. Faust
Joseph Smith and His Visions
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Restoration of Temple Service
Joseph Smith as Scientist : A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited
Letters on Mormonism
Life and Philosophy of W. H. Chamberlin
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Lost "Wagonloads of Plates": The Disappearance and Deliteralization of Sealed Records
Matters of Conscience : Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mission and Teachings of Joseph Smith
Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
Mormon Doctrine
Mormonism and Early Christianity
Mormonism and Music : A History
Mormonism's Open Canon : Some Historical Perspectives on Its Religious Limits and Potentials
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism Unveiled
Mormonism Unveiled; Or, A History of Mormonism from its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism Unveiled : Zion's Watchman Unmasked
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormon Sundays : A Historian Looks at How We've Observed the Sabbath since 1830
My Fellow Servants : Essays on the History of the Priesthood
My Life's Review
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings : A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846
Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
On Mormon Music and Musicians
On the Road with Joseph Smith : An Author's Diary
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Parting the Veil : Joseph Smith's Seventy-six Documented Visionary Experiences
Power from on High : The Development of Mormon Priesthood
Priesthood and Church Government
Program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Recollections of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Revelation, Reason, and Faith : Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen
Sacred Borders : Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
Schooling the Prophet : How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration
Scrap Book of Mormon Literature : Religious Tracts
Secrets and the Making of Mormon Moments
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Stylometric Analysis of the Book of Mormon : A Short History
Supping with the Lord : A Liturgical Theology of the LDS Sacrament
Temple and Cosmos : Beyond this Ignorant Present
Testimonies for the Truth
The Acts of the Apostle William E. McLellin
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Book of Mormon and the Bible
The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration
The Catholic Liturgy and the Mormon Temple
The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States
The Development of Early Latter-day Saint Marriage Rites, 1831-53
The Development of Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, 1846-2000 : A Documentary History
The Earliest Documented Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
The Eliza Enigma
The Essential James E. Talmage
'The Field Is White Already to Harvest' : Earliest Missionary Labors and the Book of Mormon
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
The Gospel : An Exposition of its First Principles; and Man's Relationship to Deity
The Historical Record
The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards
The Holy Priesthood, the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Community
The House of the Lord : A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The King Follett Discourse : A Newly Amalgamated Text
The Mormon Doctrine of Deity : The Roberts-Van der Donckt discussion
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormons
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Orson Pratt Journals
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
"The Perfect Union of Man and Woman" : Reclamation and Collaboration in Joseph Smith's Theology Making
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Philosophical Foundations of Mormon Theology
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The Prophet Joseph : Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith
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The Role of Music in the Mormon Church, School, and Life
The Story of 'Mormonism'
The Taylor-Cowley Affair and the Watershed of Mormon History
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The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880
The Word of Wisdom : From Principle to Requirement
The Word of Wisdom in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective
"They Shall be Made Whole" : A History of Baptism for Health
"Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down Thy Life for thy Brethren" : Zion's Blessings in the Early Church
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Transgression in the Latter-day Saint Community : The Cases of Albert Carrington, Richard R. Lyman, and Joseph F. Smith Part 2 : Richard R. Lyman
Translating Time : The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith's Narrative Cannon
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
"We Latter-day Saints are Methodists" : The Influence of Methodism on Early Mormon Religiosity
Who Shall Ascend into the Hill of the Lord?
Why the Church is as True as the Gospel
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