Evidences and Reconciliations

Books come into being in many different ways — some because writers choose to write, and some, like this one, because readers make insistent demands. Throughout his professional life as scientist, educator, public servant, and churchman a distinguished and almost unbelievably varied career going back nearly half a century — Dr. John A. Widtsoe has been receiving questions from confused and alert and honest and eager students — students of life, students of the gospel, and students engaged in formal academic pursuits. These questions have come by letter, in Church gatherings, from the mission field, in the classroom, and on informal occasions. Some years ago Dr. Widtsoe began to make permanent record of such questions as they came to him…