Religious Studies Center imprint: 38 books
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
The 44th Annual BYU Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The 2015 Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium explored the modern miracle of the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon. Featuring a keynote address by Elder Merrill J. Bateman discussing the Book of Mormon's restoration of plain and precious truths, this volume describes...
A Reason for Faith
Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
A Reason for Faith was written to do just as the title implies, provide reasons for faith by offering faithful answers to sincere questions. Before the Internet, historical and doctrinal questions not addressed in LDS Church curriculum were mostly found in the scholarly articles of academic journals....
by Wayment, Thomas A., Olson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
At times, prophets have compared various aspects of the Savior’s ministry to the mother hen, teaching that he has healing in his wings. The Savior likewise used that metaphor to describe his own power to offer refuge to his followers. By likening himself to a mother hen, the Savior testifies that he...
by Alford, Kenneth L.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This timely volume begins with a detailed timeline that provides an excellent summary of U.S. and Utah Territory events associated with the war. The authors outline how the Utah War (1857-58) directly affected the Civil War, explore the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Mormons, and explain...
by Richard E. Turley, Jr., Clinton D. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
On Christmas Day 1925, Elder Melvin J. Ballard dedicated South America for the restored gospel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Twenty-two years passed before another Apostle, Stephen L Richards, and his wife, Irene, visited the continent where the Church now existed in three nations with scattered small...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
‘All things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.’ Such was the Lord's glorious promise to Nephi, son of Helaman. This volume of symposium addresses examines the wickedness of the Nephite people and the messages the prophets give us in our day.
Under the Gun
West German and Austrian Saints in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
As World War II raged across Europe, thousands of German Latter-day Saints found themselves embroiled in the conflict. Hundreds served in the German military as their loved ones at home struggled to keep their families and the Church alive. Many were evicted from their homes and never allowed to return....
Kalaupapa
The Mormon Experience in an Exiled Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the nineteenth century, Hansen's disease, more commonly known as leprosy, spread through the Hawaiian Islands, causing the king of Hawaii to sanction an act that exiled all people afflicted with this disease to Kalaupapa, a peninsula on the island of Moloka'i. Kalaupapa was separated from the rest...
by Dennis, Ronald D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Unlike his first two years as editor of Zion's Trumpet, John S. Davis was a married man when he published the first issue of the 1851 volume. The marriage between him and Elizabeth Phillips took plan on 30 December 1850 in Merthyr Tydfil. He moved from his residence on Nantygwenith Street to one on...
The Journey West
The Mormon Pioneer Journals of Horace K. Whitney with Insights by Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
How did a young newlywed couple experience the Mormon pioneer trek west? Read the first combined husband-and-wife account of the pioneer trek in The Journey West. The six unpublished journals rank among the great Mormon exodus journals. They were written by Horace K. Whitney, son of Newel K. and Elizabeth...
Ascending the Mountain of the Lord
The 42nd Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The Psalmist asks, “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?” This year’s Sperry Symposium discusses ascending into the Lord’s moun- tain within the context of theophany, ancient temple worship, sacred space, sacrifice, offerings, and hymns and songs in the text of the Old Testament and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Through a variety of observances, ceremonies, and celebrations, Christians around the world express their faith that their Redeemer lives. Annually, Christians celebrate his life, his death, and his gift to mankind at different times and in different ways. These can be wonderful times to bear testimony...
Tales from the World Tour
The 18951897 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Andrew Jenson's global tour was instrumental in broadening the scope of Latter-day Saint history. Leaving behind his wives and children for two years, he pursued the goal of gathering records and writing the history of the Church with a rare passion. Through his own hard work and the hand of Providence,...
The Joseph Smith Translation
The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Ten prominent Church scholars presented at the symposium on the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible. Their in-depth study of the Joseph Smith Translation and related scriptures clarifies the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and show how Joseph Smith restored many plain and precious truths to that...