The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture

ISBN-13: 9780190603861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 296 str.

Terryl Givens; Brian M. Hauglid

Recenzje

This book presents a searching and sustained analysis of The Pearl of Great Price, one of the most controversial and under-examined works in the LDS canon. It is at once interpretive and historical, arguing for the centrality of Joseph Smith's later revelations to an understanding of his church. Readers seeking explanation of both the power and the vexations of Mormon theological claims should begin with this elegant, insightful study.

O autorze

Terryl Givens did graduate work in intellectual history at Cornell and in comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the Jabez Bostwick Professor of Literature and Religion Emeritus at the University of Richmond, and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute. His writings have been praised by the New York Times as "provocative reading," and include most recently a two-volume history of Mormon thought, Wrestling the Angel and Feeding the Flock (Oxford 2014; 2017). Brian M. Hauglid is Associate Professor and Visiting Scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University.