Authors: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens
Release Date: September 2014
Publisher: Deseret Book
Genre: Gospel Teachings
This book is ONE OF THE BEST!
I LOVE the caption on the front cover:
"The body of Christ needs its full complement of members--
the devout, the wayward, the uncomfortable, the struggling."
Do you feel as if you fit into one of those descriptions?
But as the jacket says "Questioning is not the problem, after all, the restoration unfolded because a young man asked questions."
Difficulties within the body of the Saints "arise when questions are based on flawed assumptions or incorrect perceptions."
SO MANY amazing thoughts and ideas are contained within these pages...
I will give you a few that really stood out to me:
"The Atonement is not a backup plan in case we happen to fall short in the process; it is the ordained means whereby we gradually become complete and whole."
"We know more than we think, even if we know less than we would like."
"We know that the main purpose of Sabbath observance is to partake of the Lord's Supper. But we sometimes grow frustrated with all the peripherals....What if we saw lessons and talks as connections to the sacrament rather than as unrelated secondary activities?
"We love God by learning to love each other."
"I am not asking you to pretend to faith you do not have. I am asking that you be true to the faith you do have.~ Elder Jeffrey Holland."
"Instead of explaining our suffering, God shares it.~ Nicholas Wolterstorff"
This book is FOR EVERYONE!
Those who stand strong in the gospel and those who carry a vessel of doubts.
TERYL GIVENS holds the James A. Bostwick chair of English and is Professor of Literature and Religion at the University of Richmond and the author of several books. His writing has been praised by the New York Times as “provocative reading” and includes, most recently,When Souls Had Wings, a history of the idea of premortal life in Western thought; a biography (with Matthew Grow) of Parley Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (winner of the 2012 Best Book Award from the Mormon History Association); andWrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought.FIONA GIVENS is a retired modern language teacher with undergraduate degrees in French and German and a graduate degree in European History. She is now an independent scholar who has published in several journals and reviews in Mormon studies, including Journal of Mormon History, Exponent II, andLDS Living. Along with Terryl, she is the author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life. Terryl and Fiona are the grandparents of five—fonts of delight; and the parents of six—sources of intellectual challenge and inspiration.
(A review copy was provided, however, all reviews are of my own opinion :)
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