Feeding the Flock, the second volume of Terryl L. Givens's landmark
study of the foundations of Mormon thought and practice, traces the
essential contours of Mormon practice as it developed from Joseph
Smith to the present. Despite the stigmatizing fascination with its
social innovations (polygamy, communalism), its stark
supernaturalism (angels, gold plates, and seer stones), and its
most esoteric aspects (a New World Garden of Eden, sacred
undergarments), as well as its long-standing outlier status among
American Protestants, Givens reminds us that Mormonism remains the
most enduring-and thriving-product of the nineteenth-century's
religious upheavals and innovations. Because Mormonism is founded
on a radically unconventional cosmology, based on unusual doctrines
of human nature, deity, and soteriology, a history of its
development cannot use conventional theological categories. Givens
has structured these volumes in a way that recognizes the implicit
logic of Mormon thought. The first book, Wrestling the Angel,
centered on the theoretical foundations of Mormon thought and
doctrine regarding God, humans, and salvation. Feeding the Flock
considers Mormon practice, the authority of the institution of the
church and its priesthood, forms of worship, and the function and
nature of spiritual gifts in the church's history, revealing that
Mormonism is still a tradition very much in the process of
formation. At once original and provocative, engaging and learned,
Givens offers the most sustained account of Mormon thought and
practice yet written.
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