APOLOGETICS
\n1 The Covenant to Defend the Kingdom of God 3
\nJohn Gee
\n2 Reflections on the Genesis and Evolution of 25
\nthe FARMS Review under the Editorship of
\nDaniel C. Peterson (1989\u20132011)
\nShirley S. Ricks
\n3 Proving That the Church Is True 55
\nSteven T. Densley
\n4 The Restored Gospel and the New Liberalism: 99
\nThe Inescapability of Political Apologetics
\nRalph C. Hancock
\n5 David Hume: On Human and Divine Things 123
\nLouis Midgley<\/p>\n
BOOK OF MORMON
\n6 An Everlasting Witness: Ancient Writings on Metal 143
\nNoel B. Reynolds
\n7 On the Importance of the Original Manuscript 159
\nof the Book of Mormon
\nRoyal Skousen
\n8 Archaeology and the Book of Mormon: 173
\nThomas Stuart Ferguson\u2019s Ambivalent Testimony
\nJohn E. Clark
\n9 The Apparent Genetic Discrepancy between 203
\nMormon\u2019s Narrative and the Origin of Native Americans
\nMichael R. Ash and Ugo A. Perego
\n10 \u201cAll Bleeding Stops . . . Eventually\u201d: Helaman\u2019s Warriors 223
\nand Modern Principles of Trauma Revisited
\nGregory L. Smith
\nCHURCH HISTORY
\n11 Joseph Smith and the Magical Contest 247
\nGeorge L. Mitton
\n12 Material Plates, Spiritual Vision: Martin Harris, 271
\nDivine Materiality, and Seeing with \u201cSpiritual Eyes\u201d
\nNeal Rappleye
\n13 God, Humankind, and Eternal Progression: 299
\nBrigham Young and Church Doctrine
\nThomas G. Alexander<\/p>\n
BIBLICAL STUDIES
\n14 Israel\u2019s Alternate Altars: Israelite-Jewish Temples, 319
\nSanctuaries, and Shrines beyond Jerusalem
\nStephen D. Ricks
\n15 Unlocking Isaiah\u2019s Closed Book: Figures of Speech, 331
\nLiterary Devices, and Writing Techniques
\nDonald W. Parry
\n16 Sitting, Walking, Standing, and the Tantalizing Links 383
\nto Sacred Ceremonies in the Epistle to the Ephesians
\nS. Kent Brown
\n17 The Seven Seals in the Apocalypse of John: 395
\nPossible Cultural, Legal, and Imperial Contexts
\nJohn W. Welch<\/p>\n
SCRIPTURE AS LITERATURE
\n18 The Book of Commandments as Literature 423
\nRichard Lyman Bushman
\n19 Foundations of a Sacred Latter-day Saint Worldview: 443
\nA Literary Reading of Doctrine and Covenants 59
\nSteven L. Olsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This festschrift<\/em> – a collection of essays in honor of a scholar – is celebrating the scholarship of Daniel C. Peterson. Books will be available for shipping the week of August 7.<\/em><\/p>\n Certainly, Dan, in his long journey as a scholar, has demonstrated his personal disinclination to \u201cstop the presses.\u201d Within the 185 entries listed As a striking indicator of Dan\u2019s range of interests, we also find forty-four articles on miscellaneous topics of many kinds. The listing also contains several composite entries reflecting lengthy ongoing contributions,\u00a0such as nine years of newspaper columns on world religions and editorship The chapters herein symbolize the mountain of significant and consequential apologetics research to which Dan and those whom he has\u00a0inspired have contributed in generous measure. As in any work of scholarship, readers will find here a diversity of arguments, a variety of temperaments, and a profusion of different interests. But in all this, I hope they will\u00a0also sense unity in the singular passion for faith that enlivens those who take seriously Peter\u2019s apostolic charge to \u201cgive a reason for the hope that is in [them]\u201d (1 Peter 3:15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":103202,"template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[49],"product_cat":[31],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103182","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-eborn-books","7":"product_cat-miscellaneous","8":"product_shipping_class-united-states","9":"pa_writer-midgley-louis","10":"pa_writer-ricks-shirley","11":"pa_writer-ricks-stephen","13":"first","14":"outofstock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n
\nin the select bibliography at the back of the book (representing only\u00a0a fraction of his writings), we can discover fifty relating to the Book of
\nMormon, thirty-three relating to the mutual endeavors of apologetics and discipleship, twenty-two demonstrating his professional mastery of Islam and the Middle East, fourteen on the existence and nature of God, nine on the gospel of Jesus Christ and the plan of salvation, and another nine on Joseph Smith and the Restoration.<\/p>\n
\nof the Islamic Translation Series for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). But it does not detail, because it would be impossible to number, the countless presentations and lectures Dan has presented worldwide in both secular and religious settings.
\nAnd, of course, we must not forget Dan\u2019s indirect efforts to promote\u00a0wider scholarship in defense and advocacy of the faith through his teaching, advising, and research at Brigham Young University\u2014as well as the\u00a0key roles he has played in organizations such as FARMS and Interpreter to \u201csupport, publish, and distribute the apologetic work of others.\u201d Despite Dan\u2019s recent retirement from the faculty at BYU, he is yet far from retired. Neither are his many friends and admirers, as the contents of this volume demonstrate.<\/p>\n