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…

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Review: 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…

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Death in a Dry Climate John Bennion. Ezekiel’s Third Wife.

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4

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The Mormon Church and the Language of My Faith

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3

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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

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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

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The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4

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Theology for the Approaching Millennium: Angels in America, Activism, and the American Religion

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

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Murder, with a Side of Philosophy: The Angel Acronym by Paul M. Edwards

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

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Colonizing the Frontier between Faith and Doubt: A Rascal by Nature, A Christian by Yearning: A Mormon Autobiography by Levi S. Peterson

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 1

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Review: Paul C. Gutjahr. The Book of Mormon: A Biography

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4

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Our Bickering Founding Fathers and Their Messy, Flawed, Divinely Inspired Constitution

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

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What Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 4

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Vardis Fisher’s Mormon Scars: Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 3

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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

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