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Suggested Reading List

Early Christian History

Abulafia, David, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vols. 5 and 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Averill, Lloyd J. Religious Right, Religious Wrong: A Critique of the Fundamentalist Phenomenon. New York: Pilgrim, 1989.

Burckhardt, Jacob. The Age of Constantine the Great, trans. Moses Hadas. Berkeley: University of California, 1949.

Burman, Edward. The Inquisition: Hammer of Heresy. New York: Dorset, 1984.

De Rosa, Peter. Vicars of Christ: The Dark Side of the Papacy. New York: Crown, 1988.

Dodds, E. R. Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Dudley, Dean. History of the First Council of Nice. Brooklyn: A&B, 1925.

Foxe, John. Foxe's Book of English Martyrs. 1554 and 1564. Reprint, Waco, Texas: Word, 1981.

Grant, R. M. Gnosticism and Early Christianity. N.p., 1959.

Hall, Stuart G. Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1992.

Harnack, Adolf von. What is Christianity? Philadelphia: Fortress, 1957.

Hastings, Adrian, Alistair Mason, and Hugh Pyper, eds., The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought. New York: Oxford University, 2000.

Hatch, Edwin. The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church. 1891. Reprint, New York: Lenox Hill, 1972.

Haught, James A. Holy Horrors. Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1990.

Hopkins, Richard R. How Greek Philosophy Corrupted the Christian Concept of God. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon, 1998.

Jager, W. Early Christianity and Greek Paideia. N.p., 1962.

Manchester, William R. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Nash, Ronald H. Christianity & the Hellenistic World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1984.

Nibley, Hugh W. Mormonism and Early Christianity. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1987.

Nibley, Hugh W. When the Lights Went Out. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2001.

Outler, Albert C., ed. The Works of John Wesley. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1986.

Skaggs, Donald. Roger Williams' Dream for America. New York: Lang, 1993.

Smylie, James H. A Brief History of the Presbyterians. Louisville, Ky: Geneva, 1996.

Talmage, James E. The Great Apostasy. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1968.

Tappert, Theodore G., ed. and trans. Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1955.

Wagner, Walter H. After the Apostles. Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress, 1994.

Wills, Garry. Saint Augustine. New York: Penguin Group, 1999.

Restoration

Bickmore, Barry R. Restoring the Ancient Church. Ben Lomond, Calif.: FAIR, 1999.

Bringhurst, Newell G. Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1981.

Brown, Matthew B. All Things Restored. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2000.

Carter, Kate B. The Negro Pioneer. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1965.

Ludlow, Victor L. Principles and Practices of the Restored Gospel. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

Newell, Coke. Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

The Book of Mormon

Aston, Warren P., and Michael K. In The Footsteps of Lehi. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994.

Cheesman, Paul R. These Early Americans: External Evidences of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1974.

Harris, Franklin S., Jr. The Book of Mormon: Message and Evidences. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1961.

Honore, Pierre. In Quest of the White God, trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger. London: Hutchinson, 1963.

Irwin, Constance H. F. Fair Gods and Stone Faces. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1963.

Lafaye, Jacques. Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813, trans. Benjamin Keen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Matthews, Robert J. "Why Have Changes Been Made in the Printed Editions of the Book of Mormon?" In A Sure Foundation. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988.

Nibley, Hugh W. An Approach to the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988.

Nibley, Hugh W. Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1988.

Nibley, Hugh W. Nibley on the Timely and the Timeless. Salt Lake City: Publisher's Press, 1978.

Nibley, Hugh W. The Prophetic Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1989.

Nibley, Hugh W. Since Cumorah. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1967.

Osborne, Harold. South American Mythology. New York: Bendrick, 1986.

Reynolds, Noel B. Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997.

Rust, Richard D. Feasting on the Word: The Literary Testimony of the Book of Mormon. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1997.

Skousen, Royal, ed. The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2001.

Skousen, Royal, ed. The Printer's Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text In Two Parts. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2001.

Sorenson, John L. An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1985.

Sorenson, John L. Mormon's Map. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000.

Tvedtnes, John A. The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000.

Welch, John W., ed. Reexploring the Book of Mormon. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992.

Yorgason, Blaine M., Bruce W. Warren, and Harold Brown. New Evidences of Christ in Ancient America. Arlington, Va.: Stratford, 1999.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Anderson, Karl R. Joseph Smith's Kirkland: Eyewitness Accounts. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989.

Black, Susan E., and Charles D. Tate, eds. Joseph Smith, the Prophet, the Man. Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1993.

Bushman, Richard L. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1984.

Ehat, Andrew F., and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. The Words of Joseph Smith. Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1980.

Hinckley, Gordon B. "Joseph the Seer." Ensign. May 1977.

McConkie, Joseph F., and Robert Millet. Joseph Smith: The Choice Seer. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996.

Porter, Larry C., and Susan E. Black, eds. The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988.

The Prophet and His Work: Essays from General Authorities on Joseph Smith and the Restoration. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996.

Temples

Brown, Matthew B. The Gate of Heaven. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 1999.

Brown, Matthew B., and Paul T. Smith. Symbols in Stone. American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 1997.

Lundwall, N. B., comp. Temples of The Most High. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993.

Nibley, Hugh W. Temple and Cosmos. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1992.

Nibley, Hugh W. Temples of the Ancient World. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1994.

Parry, Donald W., and Stephen D. Ricks. The Temple in Time and Eternity. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1999.

Apologetics

Brown, Robert L., and Rosemary Brown. They Lie in Wait to Deceive: A Study of Anti-Mormon Deception. Mesa, Arizona: Brownsworth, vol. 1, 1981; vol. 2, 1984; vol. 3, 1986; vol. 4, 1995.

Gunn, Roger S. Mormonism: Challenge and Defense. Salt Lake City: Hawkes, 1973.

Keller, Roger R. The Mormons: Fact Versus Fiction. Nashville, Tenn.: Scarritt Graduate School, 1986.

Lee, Rex E. What do Mormons Believe? Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

Peterson, Daniel C., and Stephen D. Ricks. Offenders for a Word. Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992.

Robinson, Stephen E. Are Mormons Christians? Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1991.

Scharffs, Gilbert W. The Truth about "The God Makers." Salt Lake City: Publisher's Press, 1989.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Hinckley, Gordon B. Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes. New York: Times Books, 2000.

Hinckley, Gordon B. Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997.

Ludlow, Daniel H., ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

McConkie, Bruce R., Mormon Doctrine. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966.

Richards, LeGrand. A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

Talmage, James E. Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983.

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