JLHPROF Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Thought I'd restart this thread: http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/59656-what-book-is-everyone-reading-right-now/?page=1 I love to know what gospel books people are reading. Always looking for good recommendations. I just finished "Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch". Really interesting read despite the author having a major chip on his shoulder. Not sure what I'm going to read next - revisiting "The Seer" and "In Sacred Loneliness" a bit but looking for my next big read. I am thinking about "The First Fifty Years of Relief Society" but that price tag... 1
Duncan Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 I just finished Wilford Woodruff and the Development of Temple Doctrine and just got today by mail, "Provo's Two Temples" so far it's okay not as great as I anticipated by ah, what can you do https://deseretbook.com/p/wilford-woodruffs-witness-development-temple-doctrine-jennifer-ann-mackley-93480?autocomplete=true&variant_id=2215-hardcover https://deseretbook.com/p/rsc-provos-two-temples?autocomplete=true&variant_id=125034-hardcover 1
VideoGameJunkie Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 I'm reading Robert Millett's Living in the Eleventh Hour and Living During the Millennium. Both are short books.
VideoGameJunkie Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 27 minutes ago, Hamba Tuhan said: The Book of Mormon. I don't recall that book. Who wrote it? 2
flameburns623 Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Good thing you specified "gospel" books in your OP. My reading tastes are profoundly eclectic and apt to creep you out. And I usually have my thumbs in numerous tomes simultaneously. I thumbed through the BoM and D&C today. I have a 1970's leatherbound copy of Talmage's Articles of Faith & Jesus the Christ en route via eBay: whether I read it or gift it depends on the condition it is in when it arrives. A homebound friend of mine is a bookseller/collector who is picky about used books. If this arrives in virtually ne shape, I will gift it to him for Easter. He in turn will likely gift it to a home caregiver who is LDS. I actually expect from the seller's description that this will be a reasonably good "reading" copy, however: dinged-up just enough that my friend would not want it, either for himself or to regift. In that case I will keep it and (since it is Lent and it is my custom to rad biographies of Christ during Lent and Advent), will re-read Jesus the Christ. Although, currently, I am already re-reading Fulton Sheen's Life of Christ. I'm also reading Kahlil Gibran's Jesus: the Son of Man. Those are the books closest to "Gospel" themes that I am reading. 1
Hamba Tuhan Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 8 minutes ago, VideoGameJunkie said: I don't recall that book. Who wrote it? It's an edited collection. 1
deli_llama Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Jad Hatem's "Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi." Third time, and it is so much better than my old French version. My French language skills are on par with a penguin's anymore Peck's "Evolving Faith." Diarmond MacCulloch's "Silence: A Christian History." I was recently reminded of Dean Andrew Nicholas' "The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch." It has been a few years, so I pulled that one off the shelf. I am also listening to "An Altar in the World" by Barbara Brown Taylor during my morning walks. 1
Ginger Snaps Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 I just downloaded a sample of "First Principles and Ordinances".
volgadon Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 48 minutes ago, deli_llama said: Jad Hatem's "Postponing Heaven: The Three Nephites, the Bodhisattva, and the Mahdi." Third time, and it is so much better than my old French version. My French language skills are on par with a penguin's anymore Peck's "Evolving Faith." Diarmond MacCulloch's "Silence: A Christian History." I was recently reminded of Dean Andrew Nicholas' "The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch." It has been a few years, so I pulled that one off the shelf. I am also listening to "An Altar in the World" by Barbara Brown Taylor during my morning walks. Reading Hatem for the first time.
Robert F. Smith Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Charles Shiro Inouye, The End of the World, Plan B: A Guide for the Future (Kofford, 2016). Also, lately, I have been reading the book of Ether again, but with great care.
deli_llama Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 36 minutes ago, volgadon said: Reading Hatem for the first time. How do you find it?
Garden Girl Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 I usually have a couple of things going on simultaneously... and I chuckled when I realized how many "beyond" books I have... right now it's "The Life Beyond" (post mortal) by Millet/McConkie... in addition I'm enjoying "The Essential Nibley"... and of course the Book of Mormon, as well as an anthology titled "Watch and Be Ready...Preparing for the Second Coming of the Lord" with contributions by nine authors. Additionally, I'm continually reading the Scriptures as well as the commentary from the Rabbinic (or Sages) writings in my Stone's edition of The Torah... GG
Duncan Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 2 hours ago, Tacenda said: "Planted" into Gardening?
Rivers Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Strength Through Adversity: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People by Brent L. Top https://deseretbook.com/p/strength-through-adversity-why-bad-things-happen-good-people-brent-l-top-94255?variant_id=1188-paperback
Buckeye Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 9 hours ago, JLHPROF said: Thought I'd restart this thread: http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/59656-what-book-is-everyone-reading-right-now/?page=1 I love to know what gospel books people are reading. Always looking for good recommendations. I just finished "Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch". Really interesting read despite the author having a major chip on his shoulder. Not sure what I'm going to read next - revisiting "The Seer" and "In Sacred Loneliness" a bit but looking for my next big read.I am thinking about "The First Fifty Years of Relief Society" but that price tag... Much of the new RS book is available for free here: https://churchhistorianspress.org/ I'm currently reading Peck's Wandering Realities to my kids: http://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Realities-Mormonish-Short-Fiction/dp/0988323346 Good lds-themed short fiction for bedtime.
HappyJackWagon Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Patrick Mason- Planted Charles Harrell- This is My Doctrine; The Development of Mormon Theology Devery Anderson- The Development of LDS Temple Worship 2
Tacenda Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 3 hours ago, Duncan said: into Gardening? A form of gardening.
CA Steve Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 George Roux, Ancient Iraq (Penguin, 1992) Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood, Religion and the History of Violence (Anchor, 2015) Wayne L.Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis, Arthur Vanik, Who Really Wrote The Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma, (Concordia Publishing House, 2005) David Bokovoy, Authoring the Old Testament, Genesis-Deuteronomy, (Greg Kofford Books, 2014)
morgan.deane Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 I've been reading and reviewing my manuscript, Evil Gangs and Starving Widows: Reassessing the Book of Mormon, for publication. You can read about it on this thread here:
snowflake Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message Feb 6, 2002 by Ravi Zacharias
CA Steve Posted March 2, 2016 Posted March 2, 2016 14 hours ago, JLHPROF said: I just finished "Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch". Really interesting read despite the author having a major chip on his shoulder. I really enjoyed that book also and wish the office of the Presiding Patriarch would get more attention both by the church itself and by members today becoming more aware of how important a position it was in the past. I was astounded to learn a few years back that Eldred G. Smith was still alive at that time and that he was the last holder of that office. Can you tell me why you think the author E. Gary Smith, son of Eldred, had a major chip on his shoulder? I found the book to be quite balanced in my view.
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