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An Eye of Faith

Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan

Kenneth L. Alford and Richard E. Bennett, Editors
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Richard O. Cowan: Fifty-Three Years as a Teacher, Scholar, and Mentor
    Lloyd D. Newell
  • Isaiah and the Latter-day Temple
    Terry B. Ball
  • Hyrum Smith’s Building of the Kirtland Temple
    Craig K. Manscill
  • Solomon’s Temple Compared to the Salt Lake Temple
    Ann N. Madsen
  • The Woman at the Veil: The History and Symbolic Merit of One of the Salt Lake Temple’s Most Unique Symbols
    Alonzo L. Gaskill and Seth G. Soha
  • “For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead
    Alexander L. Baugh
  • “I Mean to Be Baptized for Scores More”: Baptisms for the Dead among the Latter-day Saints, 1846–67
    Richard E. Bennett
  • The Promises Made to and the Right Belonging to the Fathers
    Craig James Ostler
  • Heber C. Kimball and Orson Hyde’s 1837 Vision of the Infernal World
    Christopher James Blythe
  • Monument to Women Memorial Garden
    Susan Easton Black
  • Prophets Rendering Christlike Service: Looking to Peter as an Example
    Kenneth L. Alford
  • Deconstructing the Sacred Narrative of the Restoration
    Nicholas J. Frederick
  • Forming A Collective Memory of the First Vision
    Elise Petersen and Steven C. Harper
  • A Scriptural Basis for the Doctrine of Sexual Purity
    Richard D. Draper
  • How the King James Translators “Replenished” the Earth
    Kent P. Jackson
  • Missionaries in War and Peace (Helaman 4–5)
    S. Kent Brown
  • The Mormon Pavilion at the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair
    Brent L. Top
  • Visions of Faith: Early Church Pioneers in Ghana
    Kenneth L. Alford and JeanMarie Stewart
  • Why the “Mormon Olympics” Didn’t Happen
    J. B. Haws
  • Writings of Richard O. Cowan
  • Acknowledgments View PDF
  • Index View PDF

About the Book

An Eye of Faith contains nineteen thought-provoking and new essays about the following topics: ancient and modern temples, revelations to the Latter-day Saints, serving others and sharing the gospel, increasing scriptural understanding, and Church history. Jointly published by Deseret Book and Brigham Young University’s Religious Studies Center, this book was written by established Church scholars including Susan Easton Black, Richard E. Bennett, Kent P. Jackson, S. Kent Brown, Richard Draper, Alexander L. Baugh, Craig Ostler, Brent L. Top, and other notable writers.

ISBN 978-0-8425-2889-4

Published in 2015

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