Archive for 'Doctrine' Category
Making Sense of the Doctrine & Covenants by Steven C Harper
Title: Making Sense of the Doctrine & Covenants Author: Steven C Harper Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: nonfiction Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 601 Binding: Hardbound ISBN-10: 1-59038-921-2 ISBN-13: 978-1-59038-921-8 Price: $35.95 Reviewed by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury I read this book along with my reading of the Doctrine and Covenants, and I found it very helpful [...]
A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants, vol 1-4 by Stephen E. Robinson and H. Dean Garrett
Title: A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants, vol 1-4 Authors: Stephen E. Robinson and H. Dean Garrett Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: nonfiction Binding: hardback Volume 1 Year Published: 2000 Number of Pages: 299 pages ISBN-10: 1-57345-784-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-57345-784-2 Price: $22.95 Volume 2 Year Published: 2001 Number of Pages: 399 pages ISBN-10: 1-57345-851-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-57345-851-1 [...]
The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Manuscript Revelation Books , Facsimile Edition
Title: The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Manuscript Revelation Books , Facsimile Edition Editors: Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, Steven C. Harper Publisher: Church Historian’s Press and Deseret Book Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 726 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: 1570088500 ISBN13: 978-1570088506 Price: $99.95 Reviewed by Joe Geisner, with additional comments [...]
Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting the Prophet Joseph Smith by Michael R. Ash
Title: Of Faith and Reason: 80 Evidences Supporting the Prophet Joseph Smith Author: Michael R. Ash Publisher: Cedar Fort Genre: Apologetics Year: 2008 Pages: 191 Binding: Soft cover ISBN13: 9781599552316 Price: $14.99 Reviewed by Blair Dee Hodges Michael Ash’s apologetic articles have been appearing online and in LDS publications for over a decade. What offensive [...]
An Approach to the Book of Abraham by Hugh Nibley
Title: An Approach to the Book of Abraham Author: Hugh Nibley Publisher: FARMS/Deseret Book Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 632 Binding: Hardcover ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-60641-054-7 Price: $45.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle Don’t panic. No, Hugh Nibley has not risen from the grave, at least not physically. While his influence can still [...]
The Joseph Smith Papers – Revelations and Translations – Vol 1
Author Name: Jessee, Dean C. ; Esplin, Ronald K. ; Bushman, Richard Lyman (General editors) Title: The Joseph Smith Papers – Revelations and Translations Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: New in New dust jacket Edition: Facsimile edition Publisher: Church Historian’s Press 2009 Book review by Joe Geisner – A Partial review. For those of you who [...]
Abraham’s Seed and Covenant – The Story of the Sacred Lineage of the Human Race By Douglas T. Bentley
Abraham’s Seed and Covenant – The Story of the Sacred Lineage of the Human Race By Douglas T. Bentley Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle On …
Abomination of Desolation: Ezekiel’s and Daniel’s Prophecies of the Last Days By Monte S. Nyman
There were two reasons why I was anxious to review this book. I took a class on the Book of Mormon from the venerable Monte S. Nyman, former director of Book of Mormon Studies in BYU’s Religious Studies Center (now retired since 1996) way back in 1972.
Latest Joseph Smith Papers volume presents facsimiles of early revelation manuscripts
By R. Scott Lloyd Church News staff writer Published: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 Taken from http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/57912/Word-of-the-Lord.html When the latest volume in the Joseph Smith Papers Project is published next week, readers will gaze back in time and glimpse the process for preserving many of the revelations in what is now the Doctrine and Covenants. The [...]
Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source by Rick Grunder
Title: Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source Author: Rick Grunder Publisher: Rick Grunder Books Genre: Non-fiction Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 2088 Binding: n/a (CD-Rom Included) ISBN10: ISBN13: 978-0-9814708-0-1 Price: $200.00 Reviewed by Joseph Johnstun In his February 1831 review of the Book of Mormon, Alexander Campbell famously wrote, “This prophet Smith, through his stone [...]