Open Canon

Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvChristine Elyse Blythe,Christopher James Blythe,Jay Burton

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The publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830 began a new scriptural tradition. Resisting the long-established closed biblical canon, the Book of Mormon posited that the Bible was incomplete and corrupted. With a commitment to an open canon, a variety of Latter Day Saint denominations have emerged, each offering their own scriptural works to accompany the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and other revelations of Joseph Smith. Open Canon breaks new ground as the first volume to examine these writings as a single spiritual heritage.Chapters cover both well-studied and lesser-studied works, introducing readers to scripture dictated by nineteenth- and twentieth-century revelators such as James Strang, Lucy Mack Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Harry Edgar Baker, and Charles B. Thompson, among others. Contributors detail how various Latter Day Saint denominations responded to scriptures introduced during the ministry of Joseph Smith and how churches have employed the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Lectures of Faith over time. Bringing together studies from across denominational boundaries, this book considers what we can learn about Latter Day Saint resistance to the closed canon and the nature of a new American scriptural tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-01-20
Mått152 x 228 x 23 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagUniversity of Utah Press,U.S.
ISBN9781647690823

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Christine Blythe is the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives Specialist at Brigham Young University and a scholar of vernacular religion and belief. From 2017 to 2021 she was editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies and is currently co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah.Christopher James Blythe is assistant professor in English at Brigham Young University. He is currently coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History and co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah. Blythe is the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse.Jay A. Burton is an archivist and Church history specialist in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a founding editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies.

AcknowledgmentsChurches and MovementsSelect ChronologySources and AbbreviationsForewordPhilip L. BarlowPart I: Introductory Essays1. Opening the Canon: A New Scriptural TraditionChristopher James Blythe2. Anchored in Revelation: Scripture and Schism in the RestorationLaurie F. Maffly- Kipp3. Revelation, Scripture, and Authority in the Latter Day Saint Diaspora, 1840–1870Richard L. SaundersPart II: Reception of Joseph Smith’s Revelations4. Books of Mormon: Latter- day Saints, Latter Day Saints, and the Book of MormonJoseph M. Spencer5. The Church of Christ (Temple Lot): A Solae Scripturae MormonismChrystal Vanel6. Joseph Smith’s Letter from Liberty Jail: A Study in CanonizationKathleen Flake7. Lectures on Faith in the Latter Day Saint TraditionRichard S. Van Wagoner, Steven C. Walker, Allen D. Roberts, and Christine Elyse BlythePart III: Case Studies in New Scripture: Nineteenth Century8. Lucy Mack Smith and Her Sacred TextJaniece Johnson9. Strangite ScriptureChristine Elyse Blythe and Christopher James Blythe10. The Book of Enoch “Revised, Corrected, and the Missing Parts Restored”Christopher James Blythe11. William Bickerton’s Cooperative Views on Scripture and RevelationDaniel P. Stone12. Scriptures for the Children of Zion: The Revelations of Sidney and Phebe RigdonJay BurtonPart IV: Case Studies in New Scripture: Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries13. Harry Edgar Baker and The Word of the LordThomas G. Evans and Christopher James Blythe14. The Levitical Writings of the House of AaronCasey Paul Griffiths15. The Hidden Records of Central Utah and the Struggle for Religious AuthorityChristopher C. Smith16. Matthew Philip Gill, Joseph Smith, and the Dynamics of Mormon SchismMatthew BowmanContributorsIndex

“A collection that treats the still-proliferating scriptures of the still-diverging branches of the Latter Day Saint movement both as a common phenomenon and as individual phenomena meriting equal intellectual seriousness and scholarly rigor is long overdue. This volume will be a landmark in Latter Day Saint studies."—Jared Hickman, associate professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, and coeditor of Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon