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Wrestling the Angel
Terryl L. Givens
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Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC99; HRCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 159 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L. Givens offers a sweeping account of Mormon belief from its founding to the present day. Situating the relatively new movement in the context of the Christian tradition, he reveals that Mormonism continues to change and grow. Givens shows that despite Mormonism's origins in a biblical culture strongly influenced by nineteenth-century Restorationist thought, which advocated a return to the Christianity of the early Church, the new movement diverges radically from the Christianity of the creeds. Mormonism proposes its own cosmology and metaphysics, ... Read more
In this first volume of his magisterial study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, Terryl L. Givens offers a sweeping account of Mormon belief from its founding to the present day. Situating the relatively new movement in the context of the Christian tradition, he reveals that Mormonism continues to change and grow. Givens shows that despite Mormonism's origins in a biblical culture strongly influenced by nineteenth-century Restorationist thought, which advocated a return to the Christianity of the early Church, the new movement diverges radically from the Christianity of the creeds. Mormonism proposes its own cosmology and metaphysics, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
422
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199794928
SKU
V9780199794928
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About Terryl L. Givens
Terryl L. Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion and James A. Bostwick Chair of English at the University of Richmond. His books on Mormonism and American religious culture include By the Hand of Mormon, People of Paradox, Parley P. Pratt (with Matthew Grow), and Viper on the Hearth.
Reviews for Wrestling the Angel
Givens has embraced a certain reading of the Mormon intellectual project and has found the tools of the academy a means for its expression...Therefore, scholarship is an essential tool for fully comprehending Mormonism's truths. These moments reveal that Givens is as much a Mormon intellectual as a scholar of Mormonism, and like Lowry Nelson or Juanita Brooks has taken upon ... Read more