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Joseph Smith and Comparative Theology

Joseph Smith and Comparative Theology
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This compilation of groundbreaking articles comparing Joseph Smith's theology with the views of other religions and individuals is selected from over fifty years of LDS scholarship published by BYU Studies. This volume features articles on the Shakers, the making of a global religion, the problem of evil, the corporeality of God, Søren Kierkegaard, open and relational theology, preexilic Israelite religion, Calvinism, Catholic liturgy, divine embodiment, and more.

Contents

"Joseph Smith Challenges the Theological World"
David Paulsen

"'Is Mormonism Christian?'; Reflections on a Complicated Question"
Jan Shipps

"What Does It Mean to Be a Christian? The Views of Joseph Smith and Søren Kierkegaard"
David Paulsen

"Open and Relational Theology: An Evangelical in Dialogue with a Latter-day Saint"
Clark H. Pinnock and David Paulsen

"What Does God Think about America? Some Challenges for Evangelicals and Mormons"
Richard J. Mouw

"Joseph Smith and Preexilic Israelite Religion"
Margaret Barker

"Joseph Smith Encounters Calvinism"
Robert L. Millet

"Early Mormon and Shaker Visions of Sanctified Community"
J. Spencer Fluhman

"The Catholic Liturgy and the Mormon Temple"
Marcus von Wellnitz

"The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives"
David Paulsen

"Conversation in Nauvoo about the Corporeality of God"
Jacob Neusner

"A New Pneumatology: Comparing Joseph Smith's Doctrine of the Spirit with His Contemporaries and the Bible"
Lynne Hilton Wilson

"Joseph Smith and the Problem of Evil"
David L. Paulsen

"Joseph Smith and Modern Mormonism: Orthodoxy, Neoorthodoxy, Tension, and Tradition"
Robert L. Millet

"Joseph Smith's Christology: After Two Hundred Years"
Robert L. Millet

Review of Sterling M. McMurrin, The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion
Reviewed by Truman G. Madsen

Review of Louis Midgley, Beyond Human Nature: The Contemporary Debate over Moral Natural Law
Reviewed by Dante Germino

Review Essay: "Jesus Was Not a Unitarian"
David Paulsen, Jacob Hawken, and Michael Hansen
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