Review: Terryl L. Givens. Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon T hought: Church and Praxis. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Authors

J. B. Haws

Keywords

Terryl Givens, theology, latter-day saints, feeding the flock, praxis

Abstract

Terryl Givens has been calling, for some time, for a broader and more serious engagement with the theology of the Church of Latter-day Saints—and he has framed that call in memorable language, as only he can. Here’s what he wrote for the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center in 2012: “In the century since the [1893] Chicago [World’s] fair, Mormons have been lauded for their choirs and their football. They are largely respected as good, decent, family-centered people, who are welcome to sing for presidents and dance with the stars—and everyone agrees to avoid theological questions.”1 Not if he can help it. His book, Feeding the Flock: Church and Praxis, will leave readers convinced that those “theological questions” are the ones that are really worth asking.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Haws, J. B. (2019) "Review: Terryl L. Givens. Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon T hought: Church and Praxis. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 16.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol6/iss1/16