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Mormons and the Bible

The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion

Philip L Barlow author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:27th Jun '13

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Philip L. Barlow offers an in-depth analysis of the approaches taken to the Bible by major Mormon leaders, from its beginnings to the present. He shows that Mormon attitudes toward the Bible comprise an extraordinary mix of conservative, liberal, and radical ingredients: an almost fundamentalist adherence to the King James Version co-exists with belief in the possibility of new revelation and surprising ideas about the limits of human language. Barlow's exploration takes important steps toward unraveling the mystery of this quintessential American religious phenomenon. This updated edition of Mormons and the Bible includes an extended bibliography and a new preface, casting Joseph Smith's mission into a new frame and treating evolutions in Mormonism's biblical usage in recent decades.

Twenty-two years after it first appeared, Mormons and the Bible is as much a classic of American religious history broadly as of Mormonism narrowly. * The Juvenile Instructor *

  • Winner of Winner of the Mormon History Association's Frances M. and Emily S. Chipman Award of Excellence.

ISBN: 9780199739035

Dimensions: 206mm x 137mm x 28mm

Weight: 363g

352 pages

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