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Welch, John W.

The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress

Provo, UT

Brigham Young University Press

2006

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Here are the papers presented at the international academic conference held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in recognition of the bicentennial of Joseph Smith's birth. These remarkable articles aim to elucidate Joseph's life and mission by positioning him—to the degree possible—within the larger framework of American spirituality and world religions.

Presenters included Latter-day Saint and other Christian scholars from Brigham Young University, Columbia University, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pepperdine University, Roanoke College, the University of Richmond in Virginia, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis, and the University of Durham in England.

Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Sources, at Library of Congress
Conferences

A Guide to the Book of Abraham
An Other Testament : On Typology
Apologetics and Antiquity: Book of Mormon Reception, 1830–1844
A Prologue to Genesis: Moses 1 in Light of Jewish Traditions
Boundary Maintenance that Pushes the Boundaries : Scriptural and Theological Insights from Apologetics
Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals After Two Centuries
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling of a Geopolitical Thread
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Orson Scott Card's 'Artifact or Artifice' : Where It Stands After Twenty-five Years
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Serpents of Fire and Brass: A Contextual Study of the Brazen Serpent Tradition in the Book of Mormon
The Deuteronomist Reforms and Lehi’s Family Dynamics : A Social Context for the Rebellions of Laman and Lemuel
The Divine Council in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Mormon
The Great and Spacious Book of Mormon Arcade Game : More Curious Works from Book of Mormon Critics
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Role of Evidence in Religious Discussion
Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon : “Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten”
"To Seek the Law of the Lord": Essays in Honor of John W. Welch
Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology

A Believing People : Literature of the Latter-day Saints
A Different Jesus? : The Christ of the Latter-day Saints
A Disciple's Life : The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell
A Guide to the Joseph Smith Papyri
A Letter Regarding the Acquisition of the Book of Abraham
A Masterpiece: Alma 36
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
Analysis of Textual Variants of the Book of Mormon
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
An Introduction to Mormonism
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited : The Evidence for Ancient Origins
Brigham Young : American Moses
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Coffee, Tea and the Ultra-Protestant and Jewish Nature of the Boundaries of Mormonism
Confronting Turbulent Environments : Issues in the Organizational Growth and Globalization of Mormonism
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Divergent Paths of the Restoration : A History of the Latter-day Saint Movement
Each Sect the Sect to End all Sects
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Pamphleteering
Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon
Encyclopedia of Joseph Smith's Teachings
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Excavating Mormon Pasts : The New Historiography of the Last Half Century
Faith in Jesus Christ
General Joseph Smith’s Appeal to the Green Mountain Boys
Gift of the Holy Ghost
Glimpses of Lehi's Jerusalem
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
How Many Members Are There Really? : Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation. [by] Blomberg, Craig L;[by] Robinson, Stephen E
How Wide the Divide? : A Mormon & an Evangelical in Conversation
Identity and Boundary Maintenance : International Prospects for Mormonism at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon : Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith
Joseph Knight's Recollection of Early Mormon History
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith And Legal Process : In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo
Joseph Smith and Modern Mormonism : Orthodoxy, Neoorthodoxy, Tension, and Tradition
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World
Joseph Smith : Prophecy, Process, and Plenitude
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Many Histories
Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible : Original Manuscripts
Joseph Smith : The Making of a Prophet
Lehi in the Desert; The World of the Jaredites; There Were Jaredites
Making Space for the Mormons : Ideas of Sacred Geography in Joseph Smith's America
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
More Than an Index : The First Reference Guide to the Doctrine and Covenants as a Window into Early Mormonism
Mormon Culture : Four Decades of Essays on Mormon Society and Personality
Mormonism and the American Way : A Response
Mormonism In All Ages : Or, The Rise, Progress and Causes of Mormonism
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy : A Crisis Theology
Mormon Redress Petitions : Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormon Spirituality : Latter-day Saints in Wales and Zion
Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World : Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson
Mortal Messiah: From Bethlehem to Calvary
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
New Light from Arabia on Lehi's Trail
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
"Nothing Less Than Miraculous" : The First Decade of Mormonism in Mongolia
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
Place, Time, and Family in Mormonism
Pressing Forward with the Book of Mormon
Rediscovering the Book of Mormon
Reexploring the Book of Mormon
Remembering Joseph : Personal Recollections of Those Who Knew the Prophet Joseph Smith
Rethinking the International Expansion of Mormonism
Since Cumorah : The Book of Mormon in the Modern World
So Far, So Good : A Brief Assessment of Mormon Membership Projections
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Studies in Scripture
The Appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith in 1820
The Basis of Mormon Success : A Theoretical Application
The Book of Mormon and Religious Epistemology
The Book of Mormon : A Reader's Edition
The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History
The Campaign and the Kingdom : The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
The Character of Joseph Smith
The Current Battle over the Book of Mormon : 'Is Modernity Itself Somehow Canonical?'
The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment : Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Geography of Book of Mormon Events : A Source Book
The Gospel Kingdom ; Selections from the Writings and Discourses of John Taylor
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
The Lynching of an American Prophet
The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith and His Brother Hyrum by Dan Jones
The Martyrdom Remembered : A One-hundred-fifty-year Perspective on the Assasination of Joseph Smith
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Faith : A New Look at Christianity
The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon : Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1 : Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting
"The Place that was Called Nahom" : New Light from Ancient Yemen
The Prophetic Book of Mormon
The Prophet Puzzle : Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise of a New World Faith
The Rise of Mormonism
The Search for Cultural Origins of Mormon Doctrines
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Wrong Type of Book
They Knew the Prophet
Two Restoration Traditions : Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century
Walking in the Sand : A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
What Does God Think About America? Some Challenges for Evangelicals and Mormons
What Is Our Doctrine?
What's in a Name? Alma as a Hebrew Name
When Lehi's Party Arrived in the Land, Did They Find Others There?
Word of Wisdom