The worlds of Joseph Smith :a bicentennial conference at the Library of Congress /edited byJohn W. Welch.
Description
Joseph Smith's many histories / Richard L. Bushman -- Biographical reflections on the American Joseph Smith / Robert V. Remini -- Joseph Smith as an American restorationist / Richard T. Hughes -- Attempting to situate Joseph Smith / Grant Underwood -- Joseph Smith : prophecy, process, and plenitude / Terryl L. Givens -- Joseph Smith and preexilic Israelite religion / Margaret Barker -- Archaeological trends and the Book of Mormon origins / John E. Clark -- Joseph Smith and the past / John W. Welch -- Gallery display -- Joseph Smith in a personal world / Dallin H. Oaks -- Joseph Smith challenges the theological world / David Paulsen -- Joseph Smith's theological challenges : from revelation and authority to metaphysics / Richard J. Mouw -- Speaking of faith : the centrality of epistemology and the perils of circularity / Randall Balmer -- Joseph Smith's Christology : after two hundred years / Robert L. Millet -- World religion : dynamics and constraints / Douglas J. Davies -- Testing Stark's thesis : is Mormonism the first New World religion since Islam? / Gerald R. McDermott -- Joseph Smith and the making of global religion / Jan Shipps -- Authority and worldwide growth / Roger R. Keller.
x, 325 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.