What does it mean to live in covenant community—and how do faith, hope, and love make such a life possible? In These Three Abide, James E. Faulconer weaves personal experience with theological reflection to show how Zion can be glimpsed here and now.Drawing on his life in a small Pennsylvania branch of the Church—where farmers, academics, business owners, and students shared not only worship but work and service—Faulconer describes a community shaped not by sameness but by...

The essays making up this collection reflect attentiveness to both ways of understanding the phrase “theology of scripture.” Each essay takes up the relatively un-self-conscious work of reading a scriptural text but then—at some point or another—asks the self-conscious question of exactly what she or he is doing in the work of reading scripture. We have thus attempted in this book (1) to create a dialogue concerning what scripture is for Latter-day Saints, and (2) to focus that dialogue on...

There are many hotly debated issues about which many people disagree, and where common ground is hard to find. From evolution to environmentalism, war and peace to political partisanship, stem cell research to same-sex marriage, how we think about controversial issues affects how we interact as Latter-day Saints.In this volume various Latter-day Saint authors address these and other issues from differing points of view. Though they differ on these tough questions, they have all foun...

The book of Romans can be difficult to understand, and it is used more than any other biblical book to challenge LDS doctrine. "When we understand Romans, it is obvious that not only need we not fear having others discuss Paul's teachings, but we can use those very teachings to teach the truthfulness of the gospel understood through latter-day revelation."In commenting on Romans 1 verse by verse, Faulconer touches on such topics as faith, holiness, obedience, service to Christ, per...

There are many hotly debated issues about which many people disagree, and where common ground is hard to find. From evolution to environmentalism, war and peace to political partisanship, stem cell research to same-sex marriage, how we think about controversial issues affects how we interact as Latter-day Saints.In this volume various Latter-day Saint authors address these and other issues from differing points of view. Though they differ on these tough questions, they have all foun...