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

by Madsen, Truman G.; Parry, Donald W.; Peterson, Daniel C.; Ricks, Stephen D.

• ISBN13: 9780934893718
• ISBN10: 0934893713
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Covenant Communications Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Truman Madsen, On His Education	xi
Truman Madsen, Valued Teacher	xxiii
Dillon K. Inouye
Philosophy and Theology
William James on Religion and God: An Introduction to The Varieties of Religious Experience	1	(54)
M. Gerald Bradford
Jesus Research and the Appearance of Psychobiography	55	(30)
James H. Charlesworth
Room to Talk: Reason's Need for Faith	85	(36)
James E. Faulconer
The Mind's Road to Fulfillment, Self-Realization, and Experiential Knowledge: Some Tagorean Views	121	(18)
Guttorm Floistad
The Utility of Faith Reconsidered	139	(48)
Louis Midgley
The Spirituality of Love: Kierkegaard on Faith's Transforming Power	187	(30)
C. Terry Warner
LDS Scripture and Theology
``Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee'': Understanding the Christ of the Restoration and the Reformation	217	(20)
Gary P. Gillum
Sin, Suffering, and Soul-Making: Joseph Smith on the Problem of Evil	237	(48)
David L. Paulsen
Blake Thomas Ostler
On the Motif of the Weeping God in Moses 7	285	(34)
Daniel C. Peterson
Ancient Views of Creation and the Doctrine of Creation ex Nihilo	319	(20)
Stephen D. Ricks
Genesis 15 in Light of the Restoration	339	(26)
David Rolph Seely
Joseph Smith Vindicated Again: Enoch, Moses 7:48, and Apocryphal Sources	365	(18)
Andrew C. Skinner
The Higher and Lesser Laws	383	(24)
John A. Tvedtnes
Joseph Smith and LDS Church History
Mormon Catechisms	407	(26)
Davis Bitton
The Theology of Councils	433	(14)
Richard Lyman Bushman
The Refractory Abner Cole	447	(30)
Andrew H. Hedges
The Martyrdom: Joseph and Hyrum Smith as Testators	477	(22)
Daniel B. McKinlay
Placing the Keystone: George Q. Cannon's Mission of Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian Language	499	(44)
David J. Whittaker
Judaism
The Mystical Denial of Language	543	(22)
Joseph Dan
The Book of Job as a Biblical ``Guide of the Perplexed''	565	(20)
Raphael Jospe
Salvation and Redemption in the Judaic Tradition	585	(22)
David Rosen
A Simhat Torah Practice and the Ephraimite Tradition	607	(8)
Seth Ward
The Temple
The Temple in Luke and Acts	615	(20)
S. Kent Brown
The Dome of the Rock	635	(16)
David Noel Freedman
Rebecca L. Frey
Fundamentals of Temple Ideology from Eastern Traditions	651	(52)
John M. Lundquist
``His Hand Is Stretched Out Still'': The Lord's Eternal Covenant of Mercy	703	(20)
Ann N. Madsen
Rationales Are Theology in the Holiness Code	723	(6)
Jacob Milgrom
``Who Shall Ascend into the Mountain of the Lord?'': Three Biblical Temple Entrance Hymns	729	(14)
Donald W. Parry
Temple and Temples: Some Linguistic Reflections	743	(10)
R. J. Zvi Werblowsky
Works	753	(26)
Truman G. Madsen
Contributors	779	(4)
Index	783