Steven L. Peck
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Værker af Steven L. Peck
Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment (2006) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 44, Number 2 (Summer 2011) (2011) — Guest editor; Introduktion — 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Common ground, different opinions : Latter-day Saints and contemporary issues (2013) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
As Iron Sharpens Iron: Listening to the Various Voices of Scripture (2016) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
BYU Studies Vol. 60 No. 3, 2021 Yet To Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-Day Saint Theology (2021) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 1988) (1988) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 49, Number 4 (Winter 2016) (2016) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Irreantum: A Review of Mormon Literature and Film - Vol. 7:2 (2005) - "Spiritual Autobiography" (2005) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 50, Number 2 (Summer 2017) (2017) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2005) (2005) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 51, Number 2 (Summer 2018) (2018) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 41, Number 2 (Summer 2008) (2008) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 43, Number 1 (Spring 2010) (2010) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 52, Number 3 (Fall 2019) (2019) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 47, Number 1 (Spring 2014) (2014) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Peck, Steven Lee
- Fødselsdato
- 1957
- Køn
- male
- Fødested
- Moab, Utah, USA
- Bopæl
- Moab, Utah, USA
Pleasant Grove, Utah, USA - Uddannelse
- North Carolina State University (PhD|Biomathematics)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MS|Environmental Biostatistics)
Brigham Young University (BS|Statistics) - Erhverv
- biology professor
novelist
poet
essayist
evolutionary ecologist - Relationer
- Lori (wife)
- Organisationer
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Brigham Young University
Neal A. Maxwell Institute (fellow) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Smith-Pettit Award (Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters)
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A Short Stay in Hell af Steven L. Peck
A compelling and short riff on the concept of the Library of Babel as put forward by Borges. A library is (near) infinite and contains every variation of every written work. It's hell, which is not eternal. You can get out if you find the book containing your life experiences. Milleniums pass. Stuff gets bleak.
This little novel has been stuck in my head (and my heart) for months now. It presents questions about the sense and scale of time and size that I still cannot wrap my head around. It's about being wrong, cosmically wrong, and having to accept it. It's about love, too. And loss. It made me think of my girl and if I ever show you this review, Bethany, I would look for you in the stacks. Forever.
How does one even describe this novella of only 100 pages? At first I found it somewhat tedious, but that only seems right considering the events in the story. Slowly, I found I couldn’t put it down. As a lover of books, I thought eternity in a library doesn’t sound like such a bad thing… until I learned the truth of those books. Then the truth of love found and lost, which seemed even greater punishment. A truer horror was the inevitability of some human natures. Though a simple idea, here, the author proves hell doesn’t have to contain hellfire to be torturous. A horror novel? No. And certainly not horrific. But insidiously horrifying.… (mere)
Imagine that Hell is an infinite library and the only way to escape is to locate your biography. A slow and unpromising beginning quickly spirals out of control into a nightmare of loneliness, tedium, and gore. This story will make you consider you life and choices through the lenses of space and time, of eternity. But do yourself a favor and read
Borges' The Library of Babel first.
Borges' The Library of Babel first.
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