Michael Austin
MICHAEL AUSTIN {[email protected]} is Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. He received his BA and MA in English from Brigham Young University and his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including the AML-Award winning Re-reading Job and the recent trade book, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition.
Why Stand Ye Gazing Up into Heaven [When] the Kingdom of God Is Within You?
Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 1
In giving my remarks a title, I have quite promiscuously mixed two statements from the New Testament that come from different speakers, at different times, addressing different audiences for different reasons. I even supplied my…
Read moreReview: Heavy Lifting on Broken Ground Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman, Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon
Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2
Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon cannot quite be described as “groundbreaking.” It covers ground, the editors acknowledge right up front, that has been broken many times before. In their introductory essay, Elizabeth Fenton…
Read moreDeath in a Dry Climate John Bennion. Ezekiel’s Third Wife.
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4
Reasonably Good Tidings of Greater- than-Average Joy Grant Hardy, ed. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, Maxwell Institute Study Edition.
Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 2
Review: Peck’s Peak Steven L. Peck.Wandering Realities: The Mormonish Short Fiction of Steven L. PeckSteven L. Peck.Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist
Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1
The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4
Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1
Since its New York debut three years ago, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America—the most sustained treatment of Mormonism to play on the Broadway stage since Jerome Kern’s The Girl from Utah in 1914—has earned a…
Read moreMurder, with a Side of Philosophy | Paul M. Edwards, The Angel Acronym
Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2
Paul Edwards’s first mystery novel, The Angel Acronym, is not exactly a religious novel, but it is a novel in which the characters spend a great deal of time talking about religion. And the religion…
Read moreColonizing the Frontier between Faith and Doubt | Levi S. Peterson, A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography
Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 1
It would be difficult for me to overstate the influence that Levi Peterson has had on both my spiritual and my intellectual development, “The Confessions of St. Augustine,” which I found by accident a few…
Read moreA Big Task for a Small Book | Paul C. Gutjahr, The Book of Mormon: A Biography
Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4
Paul Gutjahr’s The Book of Mormon: A Biography is one of the inaugural offerings from Princeton University Press’s Lives of Great Religious Books—a series that proposes a new lens for studying major religious texts such…
Read moreOur Bickering Founding Fathers and Their Messy, Flawed, Divinely Inspired Constitution
Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2
What Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry
Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 4
Vardis Fisher’s Mormon Scars: Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man
Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 3
Review: The Mormon Murder Mystery Grows Up Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife Tim Wirkus. City of Brick and Shadow
Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 1