Between the American Revolutionary war and the civil war. They discuss examples like the African Americans changing idea of nice religion and various religious groups. The National Museum of American History hosted this event and it is a little over one hour. I am stephen prothero. I and the moderator. We will have a conversation for about an hour and then move on to questions and answers from online and also from the audience. If you have questions, you should have no cards note cards. On this panel on religious growth, i am very happy we have amanda porterfield, the author of conceived in doubt. Come we were not conceived in liberty, we were conceived in doubt. Is that the idea . Next to amanda porterfield, we had David Holland a professor at the Harvard Divinity School the author of sacred borders. He is currently working on a comparative biography of two female founders of new religions. At the end, john wigger, professor of history at the university of missouri, the author of taki
If you have questions, please write them down. So, on this panel on religious growth, im very happy we have a professor of religion from Florida State university. She is the author recently of conceived in doubt religion in politics in the new american nation. We were not conceived in liberty, we were conceived in doubt . Is that the idea . That is the idea. Stephen next to amanda, we have the author of sacred borders continuing revelation and canonical restraint in early america. And also women in american religion. He is working on a comparative biography of two female founders. And then at the end, last, but not least, john, professor of history at the museum of at the university of missouri. He is the author of a biography on Francis Asbury, the american methodist leader, who i believe his powderhorn will be included in our exhibition. We have tracked down his powderhorn. So, im delighted to have you all. Thank you all for coming and joining us for this conversation. Let me start w
Joseph Smith Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1805 — 218 years ago. The anniversary of his birth today may be lost in preparing for Christmas — something that professor Daniel Peterson, professor emeritus of Arabic and Islamic studies at BYU, suggested was by no means inappropriate, since Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, not Joseph, “and don’t want to suggest otherwise.” Joseph Smith by age 24 had published the Book of Mormon, and organized what Latter-day Saints consider to be a restoration of Christ’s ancient church.
Joseph Smith Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1805 — 218 years ago. The anniversary of his birth today may be lost in preparing for Christmas — something that professor Daniel Peterson, professor emeritus of Arabic and Islamic studies at BYU, suggested was by no means inappropriate, since Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, not Joseph, “and don’t want to suggest otherwise.” Joseph Smith by age 24 had published the Book of Mormon, and organized what Latter-day Saints consider to be a restoration of Christ’s ancient church.
Latter-day Saints don’t have to be ‘nervous’ about their history, Richard Bushman and other scholars say on the anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth, and in the wake of over 18,000 pages of primary source documents about Joseph Smith being made freely available online.