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Val Larsen

About Val Larsen

Val Larsen was born and raised in Moreland, Idaho. He earned a BA in philosophy and English from BYU, an MA and PhD in English from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in marketing from Virginia Tech. While teaching at Virginia Tech, Truman State University, and currently at James Madison University, he has published articles on Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, the Book of Mormon, and a wide variety of marketing topics.

Latter-day Saint Theology and the Problem of Evil

by Val Larsen and Newell D. Wright | May 23, 2025 | 2 comments

Mormon and Moroni’s Rhetoric: Reflections Inspired by Grant Hardy’s Understanding the Book of Mormon

by Val Larsen | May 10, 2024 | 81 comments

Prophet or Loss: Mosiah1/Zeniff, Benjamin/Noah, Mosiah2/Limhi and the Emergence of the Almas

by Val Larsen | Feb 23, 2024 | 2 comments

The Holy Ghost in the Book of Moroni: Possessed of Charity

by Newell D. Wright and Val Larsen | Jun 9, 2023 | 9 comments

Theosis in the Book of Mormon: The Work and Glory of the Father, Mother and Son, and Holy Ghost

by Val Larsen and Newell D. Wright | May 19, 2023 | 6 comments

Josiah to Zoram to Sherem to Jarom and the Big Little Book of Omni

by Val Larsen | Apr 9, 2021 | 17 comments

First Visions and Last Sermons: Affirming Divine Sociality, Rejecting the Greater Apostasy

by Val Larsen | Feb 21, 2020 | 19 comments

A Mormon Theodicy: Jacob and the Problem of Evil

by Val Larsen | Jun 12, 2015 | 22 comments

Restoration: A Theological Poem in the Book of Mormon

by Val Larsen | Jun 20, 2014 | 24 comments

In His Footsteps: Ammon₁ and Ammon₂

by Val Larsen | Jan 11, 2013 | 17 comments

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