"We have learned to relish a commitment that is born of faith freely chosen rather than of certainty compelled by evidence." The Crucible of Doubt
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![]() Once it a great while a book comes along that sheds new light on a darkened world. This is one of those books! I thoroughly enjoyed every page of it.
The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith by Terryl and Fiona Givens very quickly became my favorite new LDS literary work. Brilliantly written and extensively researched, this remarkable and insightful work continues to be an inspiration for many who are seeking, struggling, questioning, and yes, even doubting. Terryl and Fiona Givens thoughtfully guide those who objectively examine their own beliefs to continue to live within the framework of their faith while at the same time dealing with their doubts. This book is intelligently written and spiritually insightful. This is not a book just for the wayward and doubting; it is a literary masterpiece that can restore and strengthen hope is all of us. As Boyd P. Hogland so appropriately stated: "A strong testimony is forged in the furnace of doubt. This book handles the issue of doubt in a very scholarly approach without creating more doubt." |
The God
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"What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance." Authors Terryl and Fiona Givens share five fundamental truths about the universe that the Mormon faith has taught them. “Woven together into a coherent tapestry, we find these fundamental truths a compelling, inspiring, and reasonable picture suggesting who presides over this universe, where we came from, why we are here, and what might await us.”
"As humans, we are, like the poet John Keats, "straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness." And yet, the authors describe a version of life's meaning that is reasonable—and radically resonant. It tells of a God whose heart beats in sympathy with ours, who set His heart upon us before the world was formed, who fashioned the earth as a place of human ascent, not exile, and who has the desire and the capacity to bring the entire human family home again. |