"Proving Contraries"

Author: Robert A. Rees

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781560851905

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In honor of the late BYU Professor Eugene England (1933-2001), friends and colleagues have contributed their best original stories, poems, reminiscences, scholarly articles, and essays for this impressive volume. In one essay, "Eugene England Enters Heaven," Robert A. Rees imagines his friend being welcomed into heaven by the Savior. Rees then imagines England "organizing contests between the Telestial and Celestial Kingdoms, leading a theater tour to Kolob, and pleading the cause of friends still struggling in mortality. This," he concludes, "is the image I have of Gene, that I hold in my heart."

Why I Stay 2
Why I Stay 2

Author: Robert a Rees

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781560852919

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Twenty-one women and men discuss what it is about Mormonism that keeps them part of the fold. Their deep, unique experiences make their individual travels even more compelling. Kimberly Applewhite Teitter, growing up in the South as a Black Latter-day Saint, often encountered well-meaning Latter-day Saints whose words messaged the idea that she was at some level an outsider or perhaps not as authentically Mormon as others in her congregation. Thus, she writes, "At the end of the day I'm still Black--still have felt the weight of proving that I represent the church I've fought so hard for my entire life." Yet the very episodes that could have driven her from the church became lessons on the meaning of discipleship.

Wrestling the Angel
Wrestling the Angel

Author: Terryl Givens

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0199794928

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Wrestling the Angel is the first in a two part study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice. The book traces the essential contours of Mormon thought as it developed from Joseph Smith to the present. Terryl L. Givens, one of the nation's foremost scholars of Mormonism, offers a sweeping account of the history of Mormon belief, revealing that Mormonism is a tradition still very much in the process of formation.

Strangers in Paradox
Strangers in Paradox

Author: Margaret Merrill Toscano

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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For example, they illustrate that for every assertion about God being a human-like man with a physical body, with a literal, physical son, accompanied by a third, spirit personage, there is a correspondingly definitive pronouncement from church leaders and scripture asserting the opposite: that the godhead includes a woman, that God is a spirit, that there is only one God, and that the Holy Spirit has a resurrected body. The Book of Mormon is trinitarian, the Doctrine and Covenants is not. The Toscanos propose that God might be visualized equally well as an androgenous being.

The Scriptural Temple: Understanding the Temple through the Scriptures
The Scriptural Temple: Understanding the Temple through the Scriptures

Author: Mark H. Green III

Publisher: Cedar Fort Publishing & Media

Published: 2023-02-02

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1462126677

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Ascend the glorious mountain of God. Members of the church, young and old, must grow in their understanding of true temple worship. is inspired book explores what the Saints must do, and how we must do it, to return to the presence of God. Learn what steps we need to take to climb to the Lord’s house, and how the temple can serve as a template for other areas of life, particularly scripture study. Make your temple experiences more than mere attendance and your scripture study more than simple reading. Begin to truly worship at the summit of Mount Zion.