Joseph Fielding Smith – A Mormon Theologian Bowman Hardback 9780252045950

Joseph Fielding SmithA Mormon Theologian\nAuthor(s): Matthew Bowman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252045950, 978-0252045950\nSynopsis\nIn the early and mid-twentieth century, Joseph Fielding Smiths [tel] life as a public historian and theologian shaped the religious worldview of generations of Latter-day Saints. Matthew Bowman examines Smiths 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, Smiths strong identity as a Saint influenced how he blended Protestant fundamentalist thought into his distinctly LDS theological views. Bowman also goes beyond Smiths well-known conservatism to reveal him as an important thinker engaged with the major religious questions of his time. Incisive and illuminating, Jos.