He edited Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 2004 to 2008. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in France and Belgium from 1954 to 1957. The spine is undamaged.Levi Savage Peterson (born 1933) is a Mormon biographer, essayist and fictionist whose best-known works include a seminal biography of Juanita Brooks, his own autobiography, and his novel The Backslider, "standard for the contemporary Mormon novel." He was born and reared in the Mormon community of Snowflake, Arizona and is an emeritus professor of English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The item is complete, unmarked, and undamaged, but may show some limited signs of wear. A well-cared-for item that has seen limited use but remains in great condition. He is saved by an epiphany that has proved controversial among readers, either interpreting it as an extreme impiety or celebrating it as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a Western setting.Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. He is a dedicated sinner until family tragedy catapults him into an arcane form of penitence preached among frontier Mormons. A young ranch-hand, Frank Windham, conceives of God as an implacable enemy of human appetite. Recognized as a Mormon classic twenty years after its release, The Backslider features longstanding Christian conflicts played out in a scenic, sparsely populated area of southern Utah.
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