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Summarized by Kent Larsen
Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six billion Years of Mormonism
Publishers Weekly pg86 24Apr00 A2
By Jana Riess
LATTER DAYS: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of Mormonism
By Coke Newell. St. Martin's, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-24108-9
NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- In an unusually harsh review, Publishers Weekly
called "Latter Days: A Guided Tour Through Six Billion Years of
Mormonism" "poorly written." But the magazine did credit Newell with a
novel approach to his subject, clearly communicating an insider's view
of Mormonism.
Latter Days uses a chronological approach to focus on distinctive LDS
beliefs, such as beliefs about the fall of Adam, the visit of Christ to
the Americas and that the Garden of Eden was located in Jackson County,
Missouri. According to Publishers Weekly, Newell also focuses on the
LDS committment to and the eternal nature of "agency" or free will.
But ultimately, Publishers Weekly was disappointed with the book in
spite of its "intriguing and fresh topic." The review complains that
the book has "abrupt, short paragraphs tumbling upon one another
without transition or adequate explanation."
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