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Joseph Fielding Smith : A Mormon Theologian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Matthew.
- Series:
- Introductions to Mormon Thought Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Joseph Fielding, 1876-1972.
- Smith, Joseph Fielding.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Presidents--Biography.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Public historians--United States--20th century--Biography.
- Public historians.
- Theologians--United States--20th century--Biography.
- Theologians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (136 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In the early and mid-twentieth century, Joseph Fielding Smith's (1876-1972) life as a public historian and theologian shaped the religious worldview of generations of Latter-day Saints. Matthew Bowman examines Smith's ideas and his place in American religious history. Smith achieved position and influence at a young age, while his theories about the age of the earth and the falseness of evolutionary theory brought fame and controversy. As Bowman shows, Smith's strong identity as a Saint influenced how he blended Protestant fundamentalist thought into his distinctly LDS theological views. Bowman also goes beyond Smith's well-known conservatism to reveal him as an important thinker engaged with the major religious questions of his time. Incisive and illuminating, this book examines the worldview and development of an influential theologian and his place in American religious and intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to the Introductions to Mormon Thought Series
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One An Intellectual Life
- Chapter Two Texts
- Chapter Three Progress
- Chapter Four Orthodoxy
- Bibliographic Essay
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780252047138
- 0252047133
- OCLC:
- 1423504181
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