Buying Options

Kindle Price: $9.99

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World by [Patrick Q Mason]

Follow the Author

Patrick Q. Mason

Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World Kindle Edition

by Patrick Q Mason (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

249 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$9.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Paperback

"Please retry"

$11.95

$11.22

The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees in upstate New York. Joseph had questions, and Jesus had answers.

That was two hundred years ago. As the Restoration enters its third century, the world has new questions. A loving God has answers. In Restoration, scholar and author Patrick Mason reflects on what it means for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to participate in the ongoing Restoration. Every generation must rediscover the gospel anew, and this book breathes new life into well-worn terms and phrases. What does it mean to restore Israel ? How can a church with less than one percent of the world s population be true ? What baggage have we picked up these past two centuries, and how do we move forward with confidence, relevance, and impact? The Restoration was intended to bless all of our Heavenly Parents children, especially the marginalized and vulnerable among us. This book will inspire and challenge you to rethink, recommit, and respond to God s call to the 21st-century world.

Print length

83 pages
Language

English
Publication date

December 2, 2020
File size

652 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Patrick Q. Mason
231
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $11.99
Fiona Givens
387
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $9.50
Patrick Q. Mason
18
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $14.99
Joshua Madson
10
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $23.99
Patrick Mason
8
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $31.49
Patrick Q. Mason
1
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $24.00

Create your FREE Amazon Business account to save up to 10% with Business-only prices and free shipping. Register today

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Patrick Mason is like a tutor in the course of life, bridging the gap between the ideals of a faithful life and the daily, lived experience. He shows us the beauty of our ideals, their eternal worth, their preciousness. But he breaks down those ideals into relatable, actionable principles with stories, metaphors and common sense. In Restoration, he applies this technique to our Heavenly Parents' vast and potentially overwhelming kingdom-building project. He shows us the glory of it, while also stripping away the human fences we've built around its core. Reading Mason is like confronting a complicated math problem, and rather than being discouraged by it, we marvel at how much of it we already know how to solve." --Neylan McBaine, author of Women at Church and Pioneering the Vote

For anyone who cares about the Church s mission in the twenty-first century, Restoration is a necessary book. Patrick Mason builds on the early leaders radical view that our charge is to renovate all of human society. He points to a few accretions we need to slough off to ready ourselves and then lays out areas calling for our best efforts. This is a strong read, but written with such a light touch and good humor, that I could not put it down. --Richard Bushman, author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

This stirring, significant, spirited, and brightly written book summons Latter-day Saints to reenvision the Restoration as, indeed, every generation must do if it is to remain maximally relevant and appealing without surrendering its essential claims. Part of that reenvisioning, Patrick Mason argues, should be a commitment to the renovation of the world which powerfully reminds me of tikkun olam, the religious duty of repairing the world advocated by Jewish thinkers since antiquity. Restoration: God s Ongoing Love for the World should and surely will stimulate an important conversation. --Daniel C. Peterson President, The Interpreter Foundation --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Patrick Q. Mason is the author of several books for Latter-day Saint and academic audiences, including Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt, and What Is Mormonism?: A Student's Introduction.

Mason is an associate professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University, where he holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture. A Utah native, Mason was trained in American history at Brigham Young University and the University of Notre Dame. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania, has served on the boards of the Mormon History Association and Dialogue Foundation, and is an advisor and contributor to Faith Matters.

Mason currently lives with his wife Melissa and their four children in Logan, Utah.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08PKKCVJ3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faith Matters Publishing (December 2, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 652 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 83 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #226,271 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #105 in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- #308 in Mormonism
- #405 in Two-Hour Religion & Spirituality Short Reads

Customer Reviews:
249 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Patrick Q. Mason

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Patrick Mason holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, where he is an associate professor of religious studies and history. He earned his BA in History from Brigham Young University and his PhD in U.S. History from the University of Notre Dame with an emphasis on American religious history. He is the author or editor of several books and is widely cited by local, national, and international media as an authority on Mormon history, culture, and theology. Mason lives with his wife Melissa and four children in Logan, Utah.

Customer reviews

5 star		83%
4 star		11%
3 star		4%
2 star		1%
1 star		1%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Ms. I Read to Escape

Relevant, Timely and Crucial

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021

Verified Purchase

I found Mr. Mason's book Restoration to be highly valuable, relevant, timely and crucial. The problem I see ahead is that the issues he addressed are so deeply entrenched in Mormon culture, I am somewhat pessimistic about them being reversed. It would be pretty amazing if current leadership could reference his book or perhaps, rather reference his sound biblical/general conference resources in a mass attempt to redirect many members' old-fashioned notions that unfortunately have diverged from Christ's original message. Christ's message is so much bigger than many of us long-time members originally comprehended. With humility and study of Christ's words and works, individuals can certainly gain a better understanding of what the Restoration means, but so many of us take the easy way out and follow the crowd with regard to popular opinion about social justice issues or lean on the flimsy pillar of patriarchy to justify our cloistered attitudes. I could see die-hard conservative members criticizing his book as being "too liberal" or "leaning left" when if they would examine Christ's life, they would see clearly what Author Mason is trying to convey. It is time to shed the limiting view of only one right way to worship God, and instead to embrace the diversity of faith with open arms and work together to ultimately show every single human being God's pure love. If we're busy judging everyone as not 'doing it right', we are completely missing the boat. Mason's book is well-thought out, beautifully executed, meticulously researched, and contains just the right amount of wit to soften the potentially gentle chastening nature of the text. Bravo.

36 people found this helpful

Helpful

Kenneth D Wright

This topic is very needful

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021

Verified Purchase

Planted by Mason is a well-written and thought-out book. It is not about gospel doctrine but about the church as an institution. The church is growing and changing. I remember the times when certain changes caused members to leave or become inactive thinking that the church was completely restored and needed no change. Members are now leaving or becoming inactive by reason of the internet. They lock on to something in church history they don’t like and throw the baby out with the bathwater. Joseph Smith did not restore the ancient church of Jesus Christ. When he was gone, there was still much to do by succeeding prophets in church administration and organization. What Joseph restored was the gospel through the Book of Mormon. There is a thread of logic to the church that exists nowhere else: if the Book of Mormon and the ensuing revelations are true, then Joseph Smith was a prophet and the church today is true. That is the thread that faithful members understand, together with the witness of the Spirit. The world we live in today is nothing like the world of Christ or the world of Joseph Smith. We all see reality based on our personal experiences, the information we receive from those around us, and the other sources of information we choose to rely on. Thus, we all see the world differently even though we all live in the same world. Many in the church are growing with the Spirit of the gospel and many are falling behind. Technology and how we use it is now an essential of living. I wonder what would happen if we were suddenly thrown back to the old pioneering days. We no longer have the skills of pioneering forefathers to eke out a living without today’s technology. The restoration of Israel will bring challenges to all of us, not just the scattered tribes. We either grow and change with the fortress of the church, or we don’t. “…from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.” (2 Nephi 28:30)

19 people found this helpful

Helpful

Incognito Obscura

DO YOU LIKE THESE QUOTES?

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

Verified Purchase

Do you like these quotes? “Jesus was not a capitalist...” [pg 65]; “...the byproducts of modern capitalism has been...inequality” [pg 66]; “...create an alternative economic system...” [pg 66]; if you like these quotes by the author, this may be the pamphlet for you; i feel about this pamphlet the same as The Lord told the Prophet Joseph regarding the Apocrypha “There are many things contained therein that are true...There are many things contained therein that are not true....”

20 people found this helpful

Helpful

QuietWife

Wish Every Latter-day Saint Would Read

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021

Verified Purchase

I am very impressed with this book and glad Patrick Mason kept it short, like he mentions in the acknowledgments. Personally I know of very few people who are actually reading and the thoughts in this book need to be considered! Maybe the size will increase the audience. The book is 100 pages and there are footnotes after chapter. Very manageable for those who struggle with reading.

On a personal level I am going to quote Mr. Mason as I teach Gospel Doctrine class AND the next time I get asked to speak in Sacrament meeting.

One of my favorite quotes is from page 33 "our people have no more of a monopoly on ongoing revelation than we do on truth or goodness." The quote attributed to C.S. Lewis on page 20 is also wonderful.

Discovering "the vast majority of references in scripts and Joseph Smith's teachings are to the restoration of the house of Israel in the last days." was also a confirmation of what I have been learning on my own. I trust Mr. Mason's take on this because of his credentials as an associate professor of religious studies and history and the rest of his professional biography.

Chapter 4 The True Church helped me begin to feel hopeful in coping with a worn out, cliched statement that has been bothering me for a long time.

12 people found this helpful

Helpful

Whistlestar

Thank you, Brother Mason!

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021

Verified Purchase

What a breath of fresh air! And such a pure distillation of recent and older statements of those that hold restored priesthood keys! The Restoration isn't just for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And more importantly, we in the Church have so much to learn from the Restoration occurring all over the world and much work to do with our sisters and brothers from whatever heritage of faith or non at all!

15 people found this helpful

Helpful

andeem7

Another Paradigm Shifter from Patrick Mason

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2021

Verified Purchase

This book is amazing. Patrick Mason reframes the Restoration in a way that forces (at least for me) a complete paradigm shift. He calls us away from an oversimplified and entitled comfort zone, to a bone-chilling charge to unite the world in love, each in our own unique way. The book is an easy and fun read, but just like Planted, the paradigm shift is transformational. Thank you, sir (again)!

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Andrew

Great Message

Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2021

Verified Purchase

I like the way this guy thinks. This book was recommended to me by a Bishop who was listening to me complain about how I feel like I'm the only one who thinks the way I do about church stuff. It's nice to know in not alone in my thinking. His thoughts are well-organized, with useful examples and metaphors.

See all reviews