title: Determining Doctrine: A Reference Guide for Evaluating Doctrinal Truth
author: Dennis B. Horne
description: Determining Doctrine. Dennis B. Horne, comp. "A Reference Guide for Evaluating Doctrinal Truth." Eborn Books: West Valley City, Utah, 2005. 420p. New Hardcover with dust jacket! Back of jacket states: "Determining Doctrine: A Reference Guide for Evaluating Doctrinal Truth is a remarkable compilation of statements and quotations from Church leaders and scholars dealing with doctrinal evaluation. Drawing from a wide range of interesting and authoritative sources, this work provides explanation and comment on the full scope of subjects and issues relating to the determination of true doctrine for Latter-day Saints. These include selected materials examining the following as they affect doctrine: The Scriptures or standard works; Prophets and apostles, the living oracles; Church Correlation; Gospel Knowledge; Scientific theories; Doctrinally oriented books; False doctrine and apostasy. Also scattered throughout this reference guide are many previously unpublished and little-known excerpts selected from the correspondence of a number of Church leaders and scholars, including Harold B. Lee, Joseph Fielding Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, and Hugh Nibley." If you're a collector of Mormon books you'll enjoy chapter one: "Church Books." Horne is also the author of a biography on Bruce R. McConkie, called "Bruce R. McConkie. Highlights From his Life &amp; Teachings." He also authored "Called of God by Prophecy" and edited the Abraham Cannon Journals in "An Apostle's Record." key search words: Mormon Mormons Mormonism LDS
zlib_text: Summa Theologiae
  Table of Contents:  Part 1
  PROLOGUE  .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
  Question 1:  The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
  Article 1:  Is it necessary to have a doctrine over and beyond the philosophical disciplines?  .. . 1
  Article 2:  Is sacred doctrine a science? .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
  Article 3:  Is sacred doctrine a single science?  .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  Article 4:  Is sacred doctrine a practical science?  .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
  Article 5:  Is sacred doctrine more noble than the other sciences?  .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
  Article 6:  Does sacred doctrine constitute wisdom?  . . . . . . . 