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245 00 a| Latter-day eloquence :b| two centuries of Mormon oratory /c| edited by Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards.;

246 30 a| Two centuries of Mormon oratory;

264 1 a| Urbana :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2026];

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 g| Foreword /r| Gideon O. Burton --g| Introduction /r| Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards --g| The Nineteenth Century.t| "Where is your confidence in God?" : Lucy Mack Smith's unexpected eloquence (1831) /r| Amy D. Williams and Thomas B. Williams --t| The vine and the fig tree : a pacifist polarity in Sidney Rigdon's Fourth of July oration (1838) /r| Isaac James Richards --t| The rhetorical repercussions of Joseph Smith's "King Follett Sermon" (1844) /r| William V. Smith --t| "Slavery is a great evil" : Orson Pratt's antislavery speech (1852) /r| Jordan T. Watkins and W. Paul Reeve --t| Restoration, violence, coloniality : decolonizing the church-settler instruction-curriculum in Brigham Young's "Our Indian relations --t| how to deal with them" (1866) /r| Kyle S. Bond and Romeo García --t| "Silence is no longer a virtue" : Eliza R. Snow and the Great Indignation Meeting (1870) /r| Megan Armknecht --t| "Miltons and Shakespeares of our own" : Orson F. Whitney's "Home Literature" (1888) /r| Gideon Burton --t| Rhetorical questions, reunification, and prophetic authority in Wilford Woodruff's Cache Stake Address on the Manifesto (1891) /r| Joshua M. Matson --t| "Western women authors and journalists" : Emmeline B. Wells's rhetoric of religious camouflage (1893) /r| Rachel Meibos Helps --t| "A phase of woman's education" : Leah Dunford Widtsoe's balance between Mormon and American utopias (1896) /r| El Call and J. Blaine Foster --t| "The methods and motives of science" : James E. Talmage's lecture in the Logan Temple (1898) /r| David L. Clark --t| Lucretia Heywood Kimball's speech at the dedication of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Salt Lake City (1898) /r| Michael Hamilton.;

505 00 g| The Twentieth Century.t| "With entire candor" : Reed Smoot's speech before the U.S. Senate (1907) /r| Carter Charles --t| A long-lasting latitude and longitude : President J. Reuben Clark's "The charted course of the church in education" (1938) /r| William G. Perez --t| A heavenly logic for mundane living in Stephen L. Richards's "Where is wisdom?" commencement address (1948) /r| Maclane E. Heward --t| Fragmented feminism in Belle Spafford's "International women" (1955) /r| Mallory Hutchings-Tryon --t| Moral mandates in the public square : Lenore Romney's speech to the Kiwanis Club of Danville, Illinois (1968) /r| G. Breck Wightman and Whitney Fitzgerald --t| Stephen R. Covey's liberal Protestant exhortation in "An educated conscience" (1975) /r| Matthew Bowman --t| Spiritual learning and academic excellence : Spencer W. Kimball and "The second century of Brigham Young University"r| (1975) --t| Jared W. Ludlow --t| Narrative theology in Truman G. Madsen's "The First Vision and its aftermath" (1978) /r| Steven C. Harper --t| Aristotelian truth-telling in Orson Scott Card's "Nobody here but us orcs : How a Mormon writer deals with the problem of good and evil" (1980) /r| Timothy Gervais --t| Art and orthodoxy : Wayne Booth's sardonic "Art and the church" (1980) /r| Nathan D. Wood --t| Urging an equal rights revolution : Byron Marchant's speech before the Alice Louis Reynolds Foundation (1982) /r| S. Spencer Wells and Isaac Barnes May --t| "From housewife to heretic" and beyond : Sonia Johnson's storytelling (1983) /r| Christine Talbot --t| "Leaders to managers : the fatal shift" : Hugh Nibley challenges the saints (1983) /r| Joseph M. Spencer --t| A provocative challenge to conventional thinking : Eugene England's "Why the church is more true than the gospel" (1985) /r| Robert A. Rees --t| Spiritual epistemology and the rhetoric of witness in Bruce R. McConkie's "The purifying power of Gethsemane" (1985) /r| Tyler J. Andersen --t| "Weaned from milk" : agency and authority in Francine Bennion's "A Latter-day Saint theology of suffering" (1986) /r| Eliza Wells --t| The wager of religious agnosticism : Levi S. Peterson's "A Christian by yearning" (1988) /r| John Durham Peters --t| The power of the ordinary : "Martha's diary and mine" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991) /r| Colleen McDannell --t| "Learning to believe" : Richard Bushman on "To be learned is good, if . . ." (1991) /r| J.B. Haws --t| "Mercy without end" : Lavina Fielding Anderson's devotion in dissent (1993) /r| Kristine Haglund --t| Disciplined eloquence : a stylistic analysis of Neal A. Maxwell's "Swallowed up in the will of the Father" (1995) /r| David Stock --t| Broadcast Live : the performative construction of public leadership in the 1998 Hinckley Larry King Live interview /r| Benjamin Peters.;

505 00 g| The Twenty-First Century.t| Speaking the unspoken : "Healing from sexual abuse" by Chieko Okazaki (2002) /r| Meridith Reed --t| The conversion narrative of Arthur Kane in New York Doll (2005) /r| Scott Haden Church --t| First things first : Judge Thomas Griffith's "Very root of Christian doctrine" (2006) /r| J. Spencer Fluhman --t| Answering the Mormon question : a rhetorical analysis of Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech (2007) /r| David Charles Gore --t| The innovative path to eternal bliss : Clayton M. Christensen's "How will you measure your life?" (2010) /r| W. Michael Hutchings --t| Imagining an apostolic-prophetic feminist rhetoric : Kate Kelly's remarks at the Ordain Women launch event (2013) /r| Jonathan W. Stone --t| "Righteous dominion and compassion for the earth" : Elder Marcus B. Nash's case for dominion as a principle of responsibility (2013) /r| Addison Graham --t| "Come, join with us" : Dieter F. Uchtdorf's invitation to Latter-day Saints in faith crisis (2013) /r| Patrick Q. Mason --t| "No more shame" : mental as medical in Jeffrey R. Holland's "Like a broken vessel" (2013) /r| Heather J. Stone --t| The choice we can make : Elizabeth Smart's "My story" (2014) /r| Ashlee Hatch --t| Our Mormon stories : John Dehlin's prepared remarks following his disciplinary hearing (2015) /r| Logan Packer --t| Rethinking knowledge and leadership to instill Hope : "The power of not knowing" by Liz Wiseman (2016) /r| Travis P. Searle --t| The sacredness of learning in Eva Witesman's "Women and education" (2017) /r| Michelle Graabek-Wallace --t| Steadfast and eloquent : Jeff Flake defies the new normal in "Protecting our democracy" (2017) /r| Tyler Duane Gardner --t| Darius Gray's forward-looking Christian discipleship : "A fifty-four-year journey toward racial equality in the Mormon Church" (2018) /r| Joseph R. Stuart --t| "Loving our neighbors" : intersections of religious, race, and immigrant rhetoric in Carolina Núñez's BYU devotional (2018) /r| Brittany Romanello --t| Three-part harmony : Joanna Brooks's tribute "In honor of Carol Lynn Pearson" (2019) /r| Jim Richards --t| "So much to celebrate"? LGBTQ identities in Matt Easton's convocation address (2019) /r| Taylor G. Petrey --t| Tara Westover's hymn to "The un-Instagramable self " (2019) /r| Richard Benjamin Crosby --t| "Sharpen my shovel" : Melissa Inouye's "Making Zion" as a personal apologetics of digging in (2019) /r| Catie Nielson --t| Mortality and the social practice of scholarship : Kate Holbrook's "The weight of legacy" (2020) /r| Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and Sophia L. Snyder --t| Conclusion : Latter-day Saint rhetoric and mythic return : time, place, and memory in the Bicentennial Proclamation /r| Isaac James Richards and Richard Benjamin Crosby.;

650 0 a| Oratory.;

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Latter-day eloquence : two centuries of Mormon oratory / edited by Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards.

Other author	Crosby, Richard Benjamin editor
Other author	Richards, Isaac James, 1998- editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2026]
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	xx, 651 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n80126081--History. --Sources. Oratory. Speeches, addresses, etc.--History and criticism.

Portion of title	Two centuries of Mormon oratory
Contents	Foreword / Gideon O. Burton -- Introduction / Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards -- The Nineteenth Century. "Where is your confidence in God?" : Lucy Mack Smith's unexpected eloquence (1831) / Amy D. Williams and Thomas B. Williams -- The vine and the fig tree : a pacifist polarity in Sidney Rigdon's Fourth of July oration (1838) / Isaac James Richards -- The rhetorical repercussions of Joseph Smith's "King Follett Sermon" (1844) / William V. Smith -- "Slavery is a great evil" : Orson Pratt's antislavery speech (1852) / Jordan T. Watkins and W. Paul Reeve -- Restoration, violence, coloniality : decolonizing the church-settler instruction-curriculum in Brigham Young's "Our Indian relations -- how to deal with them" (1866) / Kyle S. Bond and Romeo García -- "Silence is no longer a virtue" : Eliza R. Snow and the Great Indignation Meeting (1870) / Megan Armknecht -- "Miltons and Shakespeares of our own" : Orson F. Whitney's "Home Literature" (1888) / Gideon Burton -- Rhetorical questions, reunification, and prophetic authority in Wilford Woodruff's Cache Stake Address on the Manifesto (1891) / Joshua M. Matson -- "Western women authors and journalists" : Emmeline B. Wells's rhetoric of religious camouflage (1893) / Rachel Meibos Helps -- "A phase of woman's education" : Leah Dunford Widtsoe's balance between Mormon and American utopias (1896) / El Call and J. Blaine Foster -- "The methods and motives of science" : James E. Talmage's lecture in the Logan Temple (1898) / David L. Clark -- Lucretia Heywood Kimball's speech at the dedication of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Salt Lake City (1898) / Michael Hamilton.
Contents	The Twentieth Century. "With entire candor" : Reed Smoot's speech before the U.S. Senate (1907) / Carter Charles -- A long-lasting latitude and longitude : President J. Reuben Clark's "The charted course of the church in education" (1938) / William G. Perez -- A heavenly logic for mundane living in Stephen L. Richards's "Where is wisdom?" commencement address (1948) / Maclane E. Heward -- Fragmented feminism in Belle Spafford's "International women" (1955) / Mallory Hutchings-Tryon -- Moral mandates in the public square : Lenore Romney's speech to the Kiwanis Club of Danville, Illinois (1968) / G. Breck Wightman and Whitney Fitzgerald -- Stephen R. Covey's liberal Protestant exhortation in "An educated conscience" (1975) / Matthew Bowman -- Spiritual learning and academic excellence : Spencer W. Kimball and "The second century of Brigham Young University" (1975) -- Jared W. Ludlow -- Narrative theology in Truman G. Madsen's "The First Vision and its aftermath" (1978) / Steven C. Harper -- Aristotelian truth-telling in Orson Scott Card's "Nobody here but us orcs : How a Mormon writer deals with the problem of good and evil" (1980) / Timothy Gervais -- Art and orthodoxy : Wayne Booth's sardonic "Art and the church" (1980) / Nathan D. Wood -- Urging an equal rights revolution : Byron Marchant's speech before the Alice Louis Reynolds Foundation (1982) / S. Spencer Wells and Isaac Barnes May -- "From housewife to heretic" and beyond : Sonia Johnson's storytelling (1983) / Christine Talbot -- "Leaders to managers : the fatal shift" : Hugh Nibley challenges the saints (1983) / Joseph M. Spencer -- A provocative challenge to conventional thinking : Eugene England's "Why the church is more true than the gospel" (1985) / Robert A. Rees -- Spiritual epistemology and the rhetoric of witness in Bruce R. McConkie's "The purifying power of Gethsemane" (1985) / Tyler J. Andersen -- "Weaned from milk" : agency and authority in Francine Bennion's "A Latter-day Saint theology of suffering" (1986) / Eliza Wells -- The wager of religious agnosticism : Levi S. Peterson's "A Christian by yearning" (1988) / John Durham Peters -- The power of the ordinary : "Martha's diary and mine" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991) / Colleen McDannell -- "Learning to believe" : Richard Bushman on "To be learned is good, if . . ." (1991) / J.B. Haws -- "Mercy without end" : Lavina Fielding Anderson's devotion in dissent (1993) / Kristine Haglund -- Disciplined eloquence : a stylistic analysis of Neal A. Maxwell's "Swallowed up in the will of the Father" (1995) / David Stock -- Broadcast Live : the performative construction of public leadership in the 1998 Hinckley Larry King Live interview / Benjamin Peters.
Contents	The Twenty-First Century. Speaking the unspoken : "Healing from sexual abuse" by Chieko Okazaki (2002) / Meridith Reed -- The conversion narrative of Arthur Kane in New York Doll (2005) / Scott Haden Church -- First things first : Judge Thomas Griffith's "Very root of Christian doctrine" (2006) / J. Spencer Fluhman -- Answering the Mormon question : a rhetorical analysis of Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech (2007) / David Charles Gore -- The innovative path to eternal bliss : Clayton M. Christensen's "How will you measure your life?" (2010) / W. Michael Hutchings -- Imagining an apostolic-prophetic feminist rhetoric : Kate Kelly's remarks at the Ordain Women launch event (2013) / Jonathan W. Stone -- "Righteous dominion and compassion for the earth" : Elder Marcus B. Nash's case for dominion as a principle of responsibility (2013) / Addison Graham -- "Come, join with us" : Dieter F. Uchtdorf's invitation to Latter-day Saints in faith crisis (2013) / Patrick Q. Mason -- "No more shame" : mental as medical in Jeffrey R. Holland's "Like a broken vessel" (2013) / Heather J. Stone -- The choice we can make : Elizabeth Smart's "My story" (2014) / Ashlee Hatch -- Our Mormon stories : John Dehlin's prepared remarks following his disciplinary hearing (2015) / Logan Packer -- Rethinking knowledge and leadership to instill Hope : "The power of not knowing" by Liz Wiseman (2016) / Travis P. Searle -- The sacredness of learning in Eva Witesman's "Women and education" (2017) / Michelle Graabek-Wallace -- Steadfast and eloquent : Jeff Flake defies the new normal in "Protecting our democracy" (2017) / Tyler Duane Gardner -- Darius Gray's forward-looking Christian discipleship : "A fifty-four-year journey toward racial equality in the Mormon Church" (2018) / Joseph R. Stuart -- "Loving our neighbors" : intersections of religious, race, and immigrant rhetoric in Carolina Núñez's BYU devotional (2018) / Brittany Romanello -- Three-part harmony : Joanna Brooks's tribute "In honor of Carol Lynn Pearson" (2019) / Jim Richards -- "So much to celebrate"? LGBTQ identities in Matt Easton's convocation address (2019) / Taylor G. Petrey -- Tara Westover's hymn to "The un-Instagramable self " (2019) / Richard Benjamin Crosby -- "Sharpen my shovel" : Melissa Inouye's "Making Zion" as a personal apologetics of digging in (2019) / Catie Nielson -- Mortality and the social practice of scholarship : Kate Holbrook's "The weight of legacy" (2020) / Rosalynde Frandsen Welch and Sophia L. Snyder -- Conclusion : Latter-day Saint rhetoric and mythic return : time, place, and memory in the Bicentennial Proclamation / Isaac James Richards and Richard Benjamin Crosby.
Abstract	"The epic story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cannot be told without including its dedication to speechmaking and eloquence. Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards collect important speeches from a broad range of sources that highlight the history, diversity, and centrality of public speaking in Latter-day Saint life. An expert introduces each speech while offering perspective on its place in Latter-day Saint history. The collected works express a diversity of viewpoints and experiences at odds with the notion that Latter-day Saints speak in a single voice while declaring the significance of the Latter-day Saint faith in their lives.Essential and one-of-a-kind, Latter-day Eloquence provides a foundational reference for the study of Latter-day Saint rhetoric and oratory"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Latter-day eloquence Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2026 9780252048838
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9780252048838
Genre/form	speeches (documents)
Genre/form	sermons.
Genre/form	Speeches.
Genre/form	Sermons.
Genre/form	Primary sources.
Genre/form	Discours.
Genre/form	Sermons.
LCCN	2026004155
ISBN	9780252089329
ISBN	9780252049675 (hardcover)
ISBN	0252049675 (hardcover)
ISBN	0252089324 (paperback)
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