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Holland, David F.

The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon

The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts

Salt Lake City, UT

Greg Kofford Books

2018

1-24

This chapter examines the Latter-day Saint perspective on the triangle of revelatory media : personal inspiration, scripture, and prophetic leadership. It considers the way the three work together and concludes that none is more accurate than or takes precedence over the others.

Doctrinal history, prophets
Revelation and revelations
Scriptures

A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
A House for the Most High : The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
'All Things Move in Order in the City' : The Nauvoo Diary of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
’A More Powerful Effect upon the Body’ : Early Mormonism’s Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race.
"A Mormon and Still a Jew" : The Life of Alexander Neibaur
An Abundant Life : The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
An Introduction to the Book of Abraham
A Pathway to Prophethood : Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
A Study of Some Textual Variations in the Book of Mormon Comparing the Original and the Printer's Manuscripts and the 1830, the 1837, and the 1840 Editions
A Textual History of the Book of Abraham : Manuscripts and Editions
A Voice of Warning and Instruction to All People: Containing a Declaration of the Faith and Doctrine of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, Commonly Called Mormons.
Bare Record : The Nephite Archivist, The Record of Records, and the Book of Mormon Provenance
Becoming a People of the Books : Toward an Understanding of Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord
Becoming a People : The Beliefs and Practices of the Early Mormons, 1830-1845
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology
Books Buried in the Earth : The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
. . . By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus : A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Changing Thought on the Book of Mormon
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Edward Hunter : Faithful Steward
Egyptology and the Book of Abraham
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
Eternal Progression : Mormonism and American Progressivism
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
Foundational Texts of Mormonism : Examining Major Early Sources
George Laub's Nauvoo Journal
Gifts of the Spirit : Women's Share
"Git Them Translated" : Translating the Characters on the Gold Plates
Give It All Up and Follow Your Lord : Mormon Female Religiosity, 1831-1843
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
His Chastening Rod : Cholera Epidemics and the Mormons
How the Book of Mormon Reads the Bible : A Theory of Types
Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine : The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
'In Plain Terms that We May Understand' : Joseph Smith's Transformation of Hebrews in Alma 12-13
Joseph Smith and the United Firm : The Growth and Decline of the Church's First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and MIssouri, 1832-1834
Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Joseph Smith in Hermeneutical Crisis
Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator : An Inquiry
Joseph Smith, Mormonism and Enochic Tradition
Joseph Smith, Polygamy, and the Levirate Widow
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's Emendation of Hebrew Genesis 1:1
Joseph Smith's 'Inspired Translation' of Romans 7
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Joseph Smith’s Kingdom of God : The Council of Fifty and the Mormon Challenge to American Democratic Politics
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845
Joseph Smith's Scriptural Cosmology
Joseph Smith Translating Genesis
Journey to Zion : Voices from the Mormon Trail
J. Reuben Clark : Selected Papers on Religion, Education, and Youth
Keeping the Sacred : Structured Silence in the Enactment of Priesthood Authority, Gendered Worship, and Sacramental Kinship in Mormonism
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles
Learning to Read With The Book of Mormon
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Materialism and the Mormon Faith
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and the American Experience of Time
Mormonism and the Mormons
Mormonism : embracing the origin, rise and progress of the sect
Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838
Mormonism Portrayed : Its Errors and Absurdities Exposed, and the Spirit and Designs of Its Authors Made Manifest
Mormonism's 'Anti-Masonick Bible'
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
Mormonism Unveiled : Zion's Watchman Unmasked
Mormon Portraits or The Truth About the Mormon Leaders from 1830 to 1886
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons Probably Aren't Materialists
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Narrative of Some of the Proceedings of the Mormons : With Particulars Concerning the Training of the Indians, by Them, Description of the Mode of Endowment, Plurality of Wives
Nephi and Goliath : A Case Study of Literary Allusion in the Book of Mormon
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
'Not to be Riten' : The Mormon Temple Rite as Oral Canon
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Open Canons : Sacred History and American History in The Book of Mormon
Opening the Heavens : Accounts of Divine Manifestations 1820-1844
Pentecost Continued : A Contemporaneous Account of the Kirtland Temple Dedication
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Professor Seixas, The Hebrew Bible, and the Book of Abraham
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Prophecy and Palimpsest
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Quintessential Mormonism : Literal-mindedness as a Way of Life
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
Rediscovering the Context of Joseph Smith's Treasure Seeking
Reflections on Mormonism : Judaeo-Christian Parallels
Reflections on the Mormon 'Canon'
Relishing the Revelations: The Doctrine and Covenants and the Revelatory Process
'Satan Mourns Naked upon the Earth' : Locating Mormon Possession and Exorcism Rituals in the American Religious Landscape, 1830-1977
"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess
'Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry' : The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Singular Phenomena : The Evolving Mormon Interpretation of Unidentified Flying Objects
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Soaring with the Gods : Early Mormons and the Eclipse of Religious Pluralism
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Stand By My Servant Joseph : The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration
Telling Stories about Mormons and Indians
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Anthon Transcript : People, Primary Sources, and Problems
The Bible, Mormon Scripture, and the Rhetoric of Allusivity
The Book of Mormon and Its Redaction of the King James New Testament : A Further Evaluation of the Interaction between the New Testament and the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon and the Bible
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts
The Breathing Permit of Hor : A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
The 'Breathing permit of Hor' thirty-four years later
The "Caractors" Document : New Light on an Early Transcription of the Book of Mormon Characters
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century
The Complete Record of the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute
The Dependence of Abraham 1:1-3 on the Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar
The Development of Mormon Communitarianism, 1826-1846
The Early Diaries of Wilford Woodruff, 1835-1839
The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging
The Eliza Enigma
The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society : Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History
The Golden Bible in the Bible's Golden Age : The Book of Mormon and Antebellum Print Culture
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Hor Book of Breathings : A Translation and Commentary
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri : Translations and Interpretations
The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible
The Joseph Smith Translation and Italicized Words in the King James Version
The Kirtland Economy Revisited : A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Language of Heaven : Prolegomenon to the Study of Smithian Translation
The 'Lectures on Faith' : A Case Study in Decanonization
The Many Bibles of Joseph Smith : Textual, Prophetic, and Scholarly Authority in Early-​ National Bible Culture
The Meaning of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Egyptian Endowment
The Miraculous Translation of the Book of Mormon
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
The New England Origins of Mormonism
The Olive Leaf and the Family of Heaven
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century
The Reconstruction of Mormon Doctrine : From Joseph Smith to Progressive Theology
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Saga of the Book of Abraham
The Story of the Book of Abraham : Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism
The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
The Word of God : Essays on Mormon Scripture
"The Word of the Lord in the Original" : Joseph Smith's Study of Hebrew in Kirtland
"The Work of Translating" : The Book of Abraham's Translation Chronology
'They Might Have Known That He Was Not a Fallen Prophet' : The Nauvoo Journal of Joseph Fielding
To Mend A Fractured Reality : Joseph Smith's Project
To Transform History : Early Mormon Culture and the Concept of Time and Space
Toward a Mormon Sense of Time
Translating Time : The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith's Narrative Cannon
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
When Souls Had Wings : Pre-Mortal Existence in Western Thought
William Phelps's Paracletes, An Early Witness to Smith's Divine Anthropology
"Without a Cause" and "Ships of Tarshish" : A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Writing to Zion : The William W. Phelps Kirtland Letters (1835-1836)
You Shall Have My Word : Exploring the Text of the Doctrine and Covenants : The 41st Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium