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To be learned is good : essays on faith and scholarship in honor of Richard Lyman Bushman / edited by J. Spencer Fluhman, Kathleen Flake, and Jed Woodworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--Study and teaching.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint churches--History--Study and teaching.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Latter Day Saints--Historiography.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Latter Day Saint churches--Study and teaching.
- Study skills.
- History.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 349 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Essays on faith and scholarship in honor of Richard Lyman Bushman
- Place of Publication:
- Provo, Utah : Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, [2017]
- Contents:
- Historians are never innocents. Introduction : what constrains our understanding of the past? / David D. Hall
- "We gain knowledge no faster than we are saved" : the epistemic dimension of character / Philip L. Barlow
- The poetics of prejudice / Terryl L. Givens
- Truth, community, and prophetic authority / Mauro Properzi
- Anxiety and obligation in scholarship. Introduction : anxiety and obligation in the practice of history / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
- Prophetic biography : the universal, the particular and the almost-amazing grace of context / David Holland
- Above, beyond, and in between : a teacher's role / Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
- Saving history : the perquisites and perils / Kate Holbrook
- Reenvisioning Mormonism. Introduction : reenvisioning Mormonism : looking forward and looking back / Ann Taves
- Christo-fiction, Mormon philosophy, and the virtual body of Christ / Adam S. Miller
- Becoming equal partners : Latter-day Saint women as theologians / Deidre Nicole Green
- The perverse core of Mormonism : The Book of Mormon, genetic secularity, and messianic decoloniality / Jared Hickman
- Can historians quest after religious truth? Introduction : Mormonism in the academy : scholarship, teaching, and faith / Robert A. Goldberg
- Richard Bushman and the future of Mormon teaching / Jana Riess
- The role of the Church History Department in Mormon scholarship : a reflection on the Leonard J. Arrington era and the present / Matthew J. Grow
- The Second Vatican Council and Mormon correlation from pulpit and pew / Matthew Bowman
- Scholarship in its purest and best form? Introduction : Mormonism in the academy and in the secular study of religion / Richard D. Brown
- On being epistemically vulnerable : Mormonism and the secular study of religion / Brian D. Birch
- "Mormonism in the academy" : reflections on its meaning / Grant Underwood
- A modern religion / Patrick Q. Mason
- It is much better to err on the side of generosity. Introduction : smooth stones rolling : reflections on critical belief on scholarship / Grant Wacker
- The personal and the historical / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Acts of faith ... and reason / Armand L. Mauss
- My life among the scholars / Claudia L. Bushman
- Benedictions. Blessing of
- and for
- the academic life / Tona Hangen
- Finding the right words : speaking faith in secular times / Richard Lyman Bushman
- Appendix : the academic achievements and publications of Richard Lyman Bushman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: "To be learned is good".
- ISBN:
- 9780842530224
- 0842530223
- OCLC:
- 1000526928
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