The Wilderness of Faith: Essays on Contemporary Mormon Thought

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The Wilderness of Faith
Essays on Contemporary Mormon Thought
JOHN SILLITO, EDITOR
Essays on Mormonism Series No. 3
Paperback. 188 Pages. / 1-56085-009- / $10.95

In The Wilderness of Faith some of contemporary Mormonism's most provocative thinkers explore the challenges to faith in a period of rapid change, growth, and questioning. The contributors explore challenges to faith in a period of change and growth and seek to balance the conflicting demands of conformity and individuality. They attempt to make contemporary life meaningful without discarding the past.

Among the contributors are Lavina Fielding Anderson; Arthur R. Bassett; Irene M. Bates; Elouise M. Bell; Hugh B. Brown; D. Jeff Burton; Richard J. Cummings; Edwin B. Firmage; Scott G. Kenney; Betina Lindsey; Ron Molen; L. Jackson Newell; Levi S. Peterson; Linda Sillitoe; Susan B. Taber; and Donlu D. Thayer.

John Sillito is the Stewart Library Archivist and a professor of libraries at Weber State University. He is the co-author of A World We Thought We Knew: Readings in Utah History, co-editor of Letters from Exile: The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-88, and a contributor to The Latter-day Saints: A Study of the Mormons in the Light of Economic Conditions. He has been published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Utah Historical Quarterly, Weber Studies, and elsewhere.