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The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
From the "Preface":
"The Lectures on Faith were first given to the School of the Elders in the early part of the winter of 1834-35 in Kirtland, Ohio, when the elders who had been out on missions returned to their homes for the season. From 1835 to 1921 the Lectures were printed as the first part of the Doctrine and Covenants. Since 1921 they have been available for study mainly in a little booklet edition published by N. B. Lundwall about 1940, and in a Deseret Book Company version published in 1985.
"As we studied the printed versions in connection with the symposium on the Lectures on Faith sponsored by the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University, we decided to prepare a newly edited version of the Lectures to correct several mistakes that had found their way into the printed versions. We also decided to try to make some of the long, complex sentences easier to read.
"We present here a newly edited version of the Lectures on Faith. We have restricted our editing to making the language clearer and easier to read; we have not changed any of the doctrinal teachings.
"We are pleased to be able to print a whole book containing the Lectures on Faith and discussions of those lectures. If our readers can gain as much from reading this book as we have from seeing it throughout the printing process, our efforts will be richly rewarded.
"We wish to express gratitude to those who have helped us in this project. We are especially grateful for those who presented papers at the symposium, and to the staff of the Religious Studies Center Publications Office for their work in preparing the manuscripts for printing.
"Larry E. Dahl and Charles D. Tate, Jr."
(The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective, Larry E. Dahl & Charles D. Tate, Jr., ed. [Prove, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1990] p. ix.)
A PDF copy of the 1990 printing is now available online at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/doc.... Many of the Relgious Studies Center publications are now available via the digital collections at http://lib.byu.edu/rsc/ (simply select the "Search" button without entering any text to see a full selection of available titles).
"The Lectures on Faith were first given to the School of the Elders in the early part of the winter of 1834-35 in Kirtland, Ohio, when the elders who had been out on missions returned to their homes for the season. From 1835 to 1921 the Lectures were printed as the first part of the Doctrine and Covenants. Since 1921 they have been available for study mainly in a little booklet edition published by N. B. Lundwall about 1940, and in a Deseret Book Company version published in 1985.
"As we studied the printed versions in connection with the symposium on the Lectures on Faith sponsored by the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University, we decided to prepare a newly edited version of the Lectures to correct several mistakes that had found their way into the printed versions. We also decided to try to make some of the long, complex sentences easier to read.
"We present here a newly edited version of the Lectures on Faith. We have restricted our editing to making the language clearer and easier to read; we have not changed any of the doctrinal teachings.
"We are pleased to be able to print a whole book containing the Lectures on Faith and discussions of those lectures. If our readers can gain as much from reading this book as we have from seeing it throughout the printing process, our efforts will be richly rewarded.
"We wish to express gratitude to those who have helped us in this project. We are especially grateful for those who presented papers at the symposium, and to the staff of the Religious Studies Center Publications Office for their work in preparing the manuscripts for printing.
"Larry E. Dahl and Charles D. Tate, Jr."
(The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective, Larry E. Dahl & Charles D. Tate, Jr., ed. [Prove, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1990] p. ix.)
A PDF copy of the 1990 printing is now available online at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/doc.... Many of the Relgious Studies Center publications are now available via the digital collections at http://lib.byu.edu/rsc/ (simply select the "Search" button without entering any text to see a full selection of available titles).
310 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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January 9, 2022
167: Happiness is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue. Aristotle
210: why God cannot change.
218: why our God is a happy God.
210: why God cannot change.
218: why our God is a happy God.
January 17, 2008
Add two things to your to-do list:
1. Read lectures on faith, and
2. Read this version, because it has essays ABOUT the lectures on faith after it. These essays helped me immensely in understanding their significance and meaning.
1. Read lectures on faith, and
2. Read this version, because it has essays ABOUT the lectures on faith after it. These essays helped me immensely in understanding their significance and meaning.
August 22, 2011
I really enjoyed this book. I wish I had had it on the mission when we were studying faith so much. I thought the six discussions of the different lectures were really good. Makes me want to study the original Lectures more.
October 6, 2016
This book taught me the basics of "faith". Faith has always been a broad topic for me to take in--a bit elusive to grasp--but I now feel that I have a better understanding of what faith is and isn't.
June 24, 2018
Typically I wouldn't rate this book, but because it included essays and discussions on each of the lectures I will say that it helped in the understanding of this very deep doctrinal work.
January 2, 2013
This should definitely be read by those looking for a better understanding of the Lectures on Faith. The contextual essays by BYU religion professors shed much light on the subject.
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