David L. Paulsen
David L. Paulsen is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He received his JD at the University of Chicago Law School and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Michigan. His recent publications include Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christian Theologies (Macon, Ga.: Mercer, 2007) and “What Does It Mean to be a Christian? The Views of Joseph Smith and Søren Kierkegaard,” BYU Studies 47, no. 4 (2008): 55–91.
BYU Studies Publications
- “A Mother There”: A Survey of Historical Teachings about Mother in Heaven
- Are Christians Mormon?: Reassessing Joseph Smith's Theology in His Bicentennial
- Jesus Was Not a Unitarian
- Joseph Smith and the Problem of Evil
- Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World
- Open and Relational Theology: An Evangelical in Dialogue with a Latter-day Saint
- The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text, Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by Michael E. Marmura
- The Reverend Dr. Peter Christian Kierkegaard's "About and Against Mormonism" (1855)
- The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform
- Theological Underpinnings of Baptism for the Dead
- Two books on Christian theology
- What Does It Mean to Be a Christian?: The Views of Joseph Smith and Søren Kierkegaard