Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen

[Hemidakota]

Here is awesome book where it is filled with variety of writers.

EXCERPT: Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks (Editors), Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research & Mormon Studies (FARMS), 2002, 6.5x9" hardbound, 800+ pages.

The distinguished career of Truman G. Madsen has earned him wide respect in and outside of LDS circles as an outstanding teacher, scholar, researcher, speaker, university administrator, church leader, and religious ambassador. With the publication of Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, the Institute pays tribute to this remarkable man whose many accomplishments include helping to advance Book of Mormon scholarship and related interests of the Institute.

Edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks (each of whom also author a chapter), the 800-plus-page volume contains contributions by 31 scholars, 10 of whom are not Latter-day Saints, reflecting the wide appeal of Madsen's academic work and influence. The non-LDS contributors include the noted biblical scholars David Noel Freedman, James H. Charlesworth, and Jacob Milgrom. The book is organized into five sections: "Philosophy and Theology," "LDS Scripture and Theology," "Joseph Smith and LDS Church History," "Judaism," and "The Temple."

Chapters include:

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY:

1. William James on Religion and God: An Introduction to The Varieties of Religious Experience, Gerald Bradford

2. Jesus Research and the Appearance of Psychobiography, James Charlesworth

3. Room to Talk: Reason's Need for Faith, James Faulconer

4. The Mind's Road to Fulfillment, Self-Realization, and Experiential Knowledge: Some Tagorean Views, Guttorm Floistad

5. The Utility of Faith Reconsidered, Louis Midgley

6. The Spirituality of Love: Kierkegaard on Faith's Transforming Power, Terry Warner

LDS SCRIPTURE AND THEOLOGY:

7. "Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee": Understanding the Christ of the Restoration and the Reformation, Gary Gillum

8. Sin, Suffering, and Soul-Making: Joseph Smith on the Problem of Evil, David L. Paulsen and Blake Ostler

9. On the Motif of the Weeping God in Moses 7, Daniel Peterson

10. Ancient Views of Creation and the Doctrine of Creation ex Nihilo, Stephen Ricks

11. Genesis 15 in Light of the Restoration, David Seely

12. Joseph Smith Vindicated Again: Enoch, Moses 7:48, and Apocryphal Sources, Andrew Skinner

13. The Higher and Lesser Laws, John Tvedtnes

JOSEPH SMITH AND LDS CHURCH HISTORY:

14. Mormon Catechisms, Davis Bitton

15. The Theology of Councils, Richard Bushman

16. The Refractory Abner Cole, Andrew Hedges

17. The Martyrdom: Joseph and Hyrum Smith as Testators, Daniel McKinlay

18. Placing the Keystone: George Q. Cannon's Mission of Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian Language, David Whittaker

JUDAISM

19. The Mystical Denial of Language, Joseph Dan

20. The Book of Job as a Biblical "Guide of the Perplexed," Raphael Jospe

21. Salvation and Redemption in the Judaic Tradition, David Rosen

22. A Simhat Torah Practice and the Ephraimite Tradition, Seth Ward

THE TEMPLE

23. The Temple in Luke and Acts, S. Kent Brown

24. The Dome of the Rock, David Freedman and Rebecca Frey

25. Fundamentals of Temple Ideology from Eastern Traditions, John Lundquist

26. "His Hand Is Stretched Out Still": The Lord's Eternal Covenant of Mercy, Ann Madsen

27. Rationales Are Theology in the Holiness Code, Jacob Milgrom

28. Who Shall Ascend into the Mountain of the Lord?: Three Biblical Temple Entrance Hymns, Donald W. Parry

29. Temple and Temples: Some Linguistic Reflections, R.J. Werblowsky

LINK: FAIR LDS Bookstore - Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen

Edited July 12, 2010 by Hemidakota

[tefor]

Bro. Madsen was AWESOME!! We've been watching his DVD set "The Eternal Christ", and it is amazing--a real gem.

[KCGrant]

Thanks for the reminder!

[Hemidakota]

Currently, the book is sold out.

[tefor]

You can find it online here.

[Hemidakota]

Awesome find...