Appendix A: Further Readings

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This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series Who Is Truth?

Further readings about Truth as a Person

  • Brent D. Slife, “C.S. Lewis: Drawn by the Truth Made Flesh,” in Andrew C. Skinner and Robert L. Millet, eds., C.S. Lewis, the Man and His Message: An LDS Perspective (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1990), 20-37.
  • Brent Slife and Jeff Reber, “Comparing the Practical Implications of Secular and Christian Truth in Psychotherapy,” in Aaron P. Jackson, Lane Fischer, and Doris R. Dant, eds., Turning Freud Upside Down (Provo: BYU Press, 2005), 160-182.
  • James Faulconer, “Truth, Virtue, and Perspectivism,” in Virtue and the Abundant Life (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2012), 80.
  • Richard N. Williams, “Faithful Knowing and Virtuous Acts,” in Virtue and the Abundant Life (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2012), 62.

Further readings about Greek and Hebrew thought

  • James Faulconer, “Appendix 2:  Hebrew versus Greek Thinking,” in Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions (Provo, UT: BYU Press, FARMS, 1999), 135-153.
  • Marvin R. Wilson, Our Father Abraham: The Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989).
  • Marvin R. Wilson, Exploring our Hebraic Heritage:  A Christian Theology of Roots and Renewal (Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014).
  • Thorleif Boman, Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek, trans. Jules L. Moreau (New York, NY: Norton, 1960).
  • Norman H. Snaith, The Distinctive Ideas of the Old Testament (New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1964), 159.
  • Thomas Cahill, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (New York, NY: Doubleday, 2003), 259.
  • Thomas Cahill, The Gift of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (New York, NY: Doubleday, 1998).
  • Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 182.
  • Jonathan A. Jacobs (Ed.), Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem’s Enduring Presence (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Yoram Hazony, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture (Cambridge, UK:  Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  • David Patterson, Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought (London, UK:  RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).
  • Richard E. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought:  How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why. (New York:  Free Press, 2003).
  • Henry Jansen, Relationality and the Concept of God (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi, 1995).
  • Murray H. Lichtenstein, “An Interpersonal Theology of the Hebrew Bible” (Alice Ogden Bellis and Joel S. Kaminsky, Jews, Christians, and the Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature).
  • George Adam Smith, “The Hebrew Genius as Exhibited in the Old Testament,” in Edwyn R. Bevan and Charles Singer, eds., The Legacy of Israel (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1944).

Further readings about the Great Apostasy and Restoration

  • Noel B. Reynolds, “What Went Wrong for the Early Christians?” In Noel B. Reynolds, (Ed.), Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy (Provo, UT: BYU Press, FARMS, 2005).
  • Noel B. Reynolds, “The Decline of Covenant in Early Christian Thought,” in Noel B. Reynolds, (Ed.), Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy (Provo, UT: BYU Press, FARMS, 2005).
  • Daniel W. Graham and James L. Siebach, “The Introduction of Philosophy into Early Christianity,” in Noel B. Reynolds, (Ed.), Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy (Provo, UT: BYU Press, FARMS, 2005).
  • John Sanders, “Historical Considerations,” in The Openness of God, ed. Clark Pinnock (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994).
  • Dallin H. Oaks, “Apostasy and Restoration,” Ensign, May 1995, 84-87.
  • David Thomas, Hebrew Roots of Mormonism (Springville, UT: Cedar Fort, 2013).
  • Richard Hopkins, How Greek Philosophy Corrupted the Christian Concept of God (Springville, UT: Horizon Publishers, 2009).

Further readings about science and reason in a world of Person-truth

  • Brent D. Slife and Richard N. Williams, What’s Behind the Research? Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995).
  • LaMar E. Garrard, “God, Natural Law, and the Doctrine and Covenants,” in Doctrines for Exaltation: Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, February, 1989 (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1989).
  • Richard Williams, “Faith, Reason, Knowledge, and Truth,” devotional address given at Brigham Young University, February 1, 2000.
  • Stephen C. Yanchar and Amy Fisher Smith, “Gospel Law and Natural Law,” in Aaron P. Jackson, Lane Fischer, and Doris R. Dant, eds., Turning Freud Upside Down (Provo: BYU Press, 2005), 10-35.
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