Michael Austin is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. He is the author of 8 books, including Rereading Job, Buried Treasures, and, most recently, The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads and Rereads the Bible.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Christians have always shared a fundamental belief in the connection between personal salvation and the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While having faith in and experiencing the atonement of Christ remains a core tenet for Latter-day Saints, some thinkers have in recent decades reconsidered traditional understandings of atonement.

In Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement, Deidre Nicole Green and Eric D. Huntsman edit a collection that brings together multiple and diverse approaches to thinking about Latter-day Saint views on this foundational area of theology. The essayists draw on and go beyond a wide range of perspectives, classical atonement theories, and contemporary reformulations of atonement theory. The first section focuses on scriptural and historical foundations while the second concentrates on theological explorations. Together, the contributors evaluate what is efficacious and ethical in the Latter-day Saint outlook and offer ways to reconceive those views to provide a robust theological response to contemporary criticisms about atonement.

Deidre Nicole Green is Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saint/Mormon Studies at the GTU, where she offers courses on Christian theology and philosophy of religion. Her research focuses on constructive feminist theology and philosophy of religion, drawing on the thought of Søren Kierkegaard to respond to contemporary issues in these disciplines. She is co-editor with Eric D. Huntsman of Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement. Prior to joining the GTU in 2022, Green was a postdoctoral researcher at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University. She has held research fellowships in Copenhagen and Zürich and conducted ethnographic research in Botswana, Rwanda, and South Africa.

Eric D. Huntsman received his BA in Classical Greek and Latin from Brigham Young University and his MA and PhD in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the BYU faculty in 1994 in Classics and Ancient History, and then transferred to Religious Education in 2003, becoming a full professor of Ancient Scripture in 2015. From 2012 to 2012, he served as the coordinator of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies program in the Kenndy Center, and he has been serving as an associate director for academics at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies since 2022. His publications focus on the New Testament Gospels, especially John, and on the Infancy and Passion Narratives (that is, Christmas and Easter!). Eric serves in the Provo Temple and sings with the Tabernacle Choir, and he and his wife Elaine are the parents of two children, Rachel and Samuel.

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At the heart of the gospel is a radical message of hope: we are capable of unlimited development, of becoming even as Christ is. But what does this path of transformation look like and feel like in practice? For centuries, so much of Christianity has focused on what to believe. Thomas McConkie redirects this conversation to the simple but potent practices we can engage in body, heart, mind and spirit—awakening us to a greater measure of the Sacred right here and now. “At-one-ment” becomes a spiritual reality in which we can all participate, not just a historical event in which a select few believe.

In a clear and elegant sequence, McConkie describes ancient and modern approaches to awakening the mind, purifying the heart and healing the body, as well as common challenges that come up along the way. Whatever the reader’s personal beliefs, this book is intended to complement their worldview and provide practical, actionable steps toward realizing a greater fullness of all that they are meant to become.

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After his long and successful career as a coach and a high school administrator, Mark Hugentobler was “sentenced” to prison by his local school board. He became academy principal within the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison, Utah. Arriving at the “Island of Misfit Toys” he soon recognized that his perceptions of the prison system were completely inaccurate. He found a world without hope. He came to realize that the Department of Corrections was not, as most people think, doing all they could to help “correct” inmates. It became clear that the system was dysfunctional and was in fact helping inmates become better criminals rather than helping them become better people. He came to realize that most of those incarcerated there would readily receive help and wanted to change but could only do so by exercising extreme personal effort, overcoming countless obstacles present in the current system.

He soon identified the vast, unexplored opportunities to help inmates: providing hope and purpose through education. He also gained the viewpoint of seeing prison life through an inmate’s eye, realizing the true story of life behind bars. During his eight years “down” he saw enrollment in the prison academy jump from 200 to nearly 1,200 students and enacted, firsthand, a model of the change that is possible in a broken system. If only someone would listen.

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George Handley is a professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University.  His training is in Comparative Literature, focusing on the literatures of the Americas. His publications include two books on inter-american themes: “Postslavery Literatures in the Americas” (Virginia 2000), which is a study of the representation of slavery and family history in novels from the U.S. and the Caribbean, and “New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda and Walcott” (Georgia, 2007), which is a critique of the imagination of nature in inter-american poetry.  (hum.byu.edu)

In George’s most recent book, Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator, he examines Bennion’s work against the background of a changing institution that once welcomed his common-sense articulation of LDS ideas and values but became discomfited by how his thought cast doubt on the Church’s beliefs about race and other issues. (press.uillinois.edu) Handley and his wife, Amy, have four children and live in Provo.

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Darren Parry is the Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the American West Heritage Center, the Utah State Museum board, and he serves on the Advisory Board of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.  He teaches Native American History at Utah State University.

Darren is working to create the Boa Ogoi [Big River] Cultural Interpretive Center, an educational center that will share the story of the Bear River Massacre.

2 On January 29, 1863, the U.S. Army attacked the Shoshone encamped at the Bear River, near present-day Preston, Idaho, and slaughtered 250 to 500 Shoshone people, including women and children. Public reports of this massacre were officially given by the U.S. Army and by Latter-day Saint settlers, but the Shoshone survivors also kept a history. (byustudies.byu..edu)

Darren is the author of The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History, available in paperback and on kindle.

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