Philip L. Barlow
Author of Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
About the Author
Philip L. Barlow is Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University. His books include the Oxford Handbook to Mormonism (coedited with Terryl Givens, 2013), The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America (coauthored with Edwin Scott Gaustad, 2000) and, as coeditor with Mark show more Silk, Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America's Common Denominator? (2004). He is past president of the Mormon History Association. show less
Works by Philip L. Barlow
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion (1991) 50 copies, 3 reviews
Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: Americas Common Denominator? (Religion By Region) (2004) — Introduction; Contributor — 20 copies
Faith and Intellect: The Lives and Contributions of Latter-day Saint Thinkers (2019) — Foreword — 3 copies
Mormonism in America — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life Book 18) (2015) — Contributor — 12 copies
To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (2018) — Contributor — 10 copies
Why I Stay 2: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Latter-day Saints (Volume 2) (2021) — Contributor — 7 copies
Yet to be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology (BYU Studies Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2021) (2021) — Contributor — 3 copies
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Winter 1989, Vol. LVII, No. 4 (1989) — Contributor — 2 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 22, Number 2 (Summer 1989) (1989) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 37, Number 4 (Winter 2004) (2004) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring 2009) (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2013) (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Barlow, Philip Layton
- Birthdate
- 1950
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Weber State College (BA|History|1975)
Harvard Divinity School (MTS|1980)
Harvard Divinity School (ThD|American Religious History|1988) - Occupations
- religious studies professor
professor of theological studies - Organizations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hanover College
Utah State University
Mormon History Association (president)
Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology
Dialogue Foundation (show all 8)
University of Rochester
Neal A. Maxwell Institute (associate director) - Awards and honors
- Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture - Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Bountiful, Utah, USA
Hanover, Indiana, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Some of the concepts in this book tried to break my brain, but this really is a fascinating lense through which to look at the gospel.
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-Day Saints in American Religion (Religion in America) by Philip L. Barlow
Barlow writes here a history of the use of the Bible in the LDS (Mormon) Church, starting with how Joseph Smith Jr. read and studied the work and how the use of the Bible changed as different men became prophet-president.
Of particular interest was the chapter discussing why the LDS Church use the King James (Authorised) version when other churches transition to more accessible translations. Barlow proposes that since the language of the KJV, its Jacobean heritage, was that which Joseph show more Smith read and understood, and that it is similar in style to the language of the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.
Altogether this is an interesting, readable, and even-handed book that contributes useful points to the study of the LDS church. show less
Of particular interest was the chapter discussing why the LDS Church use the King James (Authorised) version when other churches transition to more accessible translations. Barlow proposes that since the language of the KJV, its Jacobean heritage, was that which Joseph show more Smith read and understood, and that it is similar in style to the language of the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants.
Altogether this is an interesting, readable, and even-handed book that contributes useful points to the study of the LDS church. show less
Barlow's work is a great introduction to the position of the Bible in the Mormon Church. He makes some very interesting observations.
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