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Joseph Smith As An American Restorationist, Richard T. Hughes
Joseph Smith As An American Restorationist, Richard T. Hughes
BYU Studies Quarterly
Richard Bushman’s wonderfully expansive paper “Joseph Smith’s Many Histories” reminds us in forceful ways of the historical complexity that helped create the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith. Bushman also reminds us that while historical complexity is embedded in history, it embeds itself as well in the hearts and minds of human beings who discover the various realities of history and then appropriate those realities for their own purposes. As an illustration of this point, Bushman tells the story of Christopher Columbus— how his standing as the grandfather of the United States was neither acknowledged nor celebrated until after 1776.
Joseph Smith And The Making Of A Global Religion, Jan Shipps
Joseph Smith And The Making Of A Global Religion, Jan Shipps
BYU Studies Quarterly
In regard to the other “worlds” of the first Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith was certainly “in that world and of it.” He was clearly in attendance “in his own time;” he attempted to recover past worlds; he was and is present in his own and in the personal worlds of others; and he challenged the theological world of his day.