Nathan B. Oman

NATHAN B. OMAN {[email protected]} is a professor at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. His articles on Mormon studies have appeared in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, BYU Law Review, and FARMS Review. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Heather, their two children, and a psychotic (but friendly) dog. He serves as ward clerk in the Jamestown Ward, Newport News Virginia Stake.

An Open Letter to the Dialogue Board

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4

I hope that you will not find an unsolicited letter presumptuous, but I wanted to give you my thoughts on what I see as Dialogue’s problems and some things it could do to improve. First, let me say I wish Dialogue well, and I want it to succeed. I am very heartened to see the appearance of important works on Mormonism in places like Oxford University Press or the Harvard Theological Review. However, while there may someday come a time when the publishing of Mormon studies can occur entirely outside the ghetto of wholly Mormon venues, that time has not yet come. Furthermore, for certain topics I don’t think that it will ever come. That being the case, I care a great deal about the health and public reputation of Mormon intellectual fora.

A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 4

The Scholar as Celebrant : Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 3

“The Living Oracles”: Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

Mordred Had a Good Point Gary Topping, Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 1