Author
Terryl L. Givens
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
January 2010
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With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths, the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly one of the most influential religious texts produced in the western world. Written by Terryl Givens, a leading authority on Mormonism, this compact volume offers the only concise, accessible introduction to this extraordinary work. Givens examines the Book of Mormon first and foremost in terms of the claims that its narrators make for its historical genesis, its purpose as a sacred text, and its meaning for an audience which shifts over the course of the history it unfolds. The author traces five governing themes in particular--revelation, Christ, Zion, scripture, and covenant--and analyzes the Book's central doctrines and teachings. Some of these resonate with familiar nineteenth-century religious preoccupations; others consist of radical and unexpected takes on topics from the fall of Man to Christ's mortal ministries and the meaning of atonement.Givens also provides samples of a cast of characters that number in the hundreds, and analyzes representative passages from a work that encompasses tragedy, poetry, sermons, visions, family histories and military chronicles. Finally, this introduction surveys the contested origins and production of a work held by millions to be scripture, and reviews the scholarly debates that address questions of the record's historicity. Here then is an accessible guide to what is, by any measure, an indispensable key to understanding Mormonism. But it is also an introduction to a compelling and complex text that is too often overshadowed by the controversies that surround it.
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Author
Terryl L. Givens
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
January 2010
Weight
137g
Page Count
152
Dimensions
110 x 171 x 11 mm
ISBN
9780195369311
ISBN-10
0195369319
Eden Code
2390710
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Author/Creator: Terryl L. Givens
ISBN: 9780195369311
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: January 2010
Weight: 137g
Dimensions: 110 x 171 x 11 mm
Eden Code: 2390710
13 years ago
The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction
Givens is clearly a master of his subject and conversant with recent developments in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. His approach to his subject is well thought out and his language clear. Anyone choosing to read his introduction to The Book of Mormon will be well prepared if they go on to read the Book itself. There can be little or nothing the author does not touch upon.
If there is a minor negative criticism to be made of Givens' work it is, perhaps, that he has presented the reader who has no prior knowledge of the Book of Mormon with too much detail. This is a minor criticism. It should not deter the enquirer from reading an otherwise excellent introduction to a much larger subject.
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