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A Stop to the Shedding of Blood

A Stop to the Shedding of Blood

Goff, Alan

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CriminologyGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1961471256
ISBN13: 9781961471252
Publisher: By Common Consent Press
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing critically on René Girard's theory of mimetic rivalry, Alan Goff offers a deeply theoretical examination of violence in the Book of Mormon. Goff navigates the charged intersections of divine command, human conscience, and covenantal obligation through close readings of the Book of Mormon's morally complex narratives: Nephi's execution of Laban, Abinadi's martyrdom, Captain Moroni's summary justice, and the theological puzzles of righteous warfare. Engaging phenomenology, virtue ethics, and other critical lenses, Goff demonstrates that the Nephite record is no simple morality tale but rather saturated scripture that demands repeated engagement. This volume takes seriously the Book of Mormon's standing as Hebraic scripture and confronts its portrayals of divinely sanctioned violence. Goff argues that covenant requires robust ethical reflection: like Abraham bargaining for Sodom, readers must wrestle with the moral tensions embedded in sacred narrative. For scholars of Restoration scripture, students of religious ethics, and thoughtful believers seeking to deepen their engagement with difficult texts, this book models the works of Abraham, who refused to evade the abundant, excessive, and troubling encounters with the divine that scripture records. Erudite, theoretical, and respectful, this work gives us a Book of Mormon worthy of the most rigorous moral and theological scrutiny. -Rosalynde Welch Research Fellow and Associate Director, BYU Maxwell Institute Author of Seven Songs: Christ in the Old Testament and Ether: A Brief Theological Introduction

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