Excursus: Joseph Smith's Anti-Creedal Imperative (Part 7/9)

In this episode, Skye flies solo further analyzing the Mormon anti-creedal imperative. Building on the coverage in Part One of the Creedal Imperative series, Skye analyzes whether it it just creeds – or perhaps it is a deeper issue that would affect their view of canon, and even written texts at all? This is all occurring within the background of the Mormon paradox of on the one hand, the impulse toward exclusivity – and on the other hand, the trend toward a type of conformity that downplays any distinctives. 

JSH-1; 1 Ne 13; D&C 46.2 ; D&C 84; D&C 123 

History of the Church, edited by B.H. Roberts (vol.’s 3, 5, and 6) 

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, edited by Joseph Fielding Smith 

George A. Smith: JD 11.9; JD 13.292-293 

John Taylor: JD 14.267-70 

Wilford Woodruff: JD 24.236 

Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney 

Mormon Doctrine; A New Witness for the Articles of Faith by Bruce R. McConkie  

“But Arise and Stand Upon Thy Feet” by Harold B. Lee 

A Marvelous Work and a Wonder; “Strange Creeds of Christendom” by LeGrand Richards 

LDS Temple transcript: here and here 

Wrestling the Angel by Teryl Givens (also here) 

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Bushman 

Mormonism in Transition by Thomas Alexander 

Jason Wallace: An Earnest Plea to Charismatics