Apostasy and Restoration

Apostasy

Apostasy,” by Todd Compton in Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

The Concept of Apostasy in the New Testament,” by James E. Faulconer in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

Modern Revelation: A Guide to Research about the Apostasy,” by John W. Welch in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

New Testament Prophecies of Apostasy,” by Kent P. Jackson in Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

The Process of Apostasy in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon,” by Daniel Belnap in Shedding Light on the New Testament: Acts–Revelation, ed. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.

‘Watch and Remember’: The New Testament and the Great Apostasy,” by Kent P. Jackson in By Study and also by Faith Volume 1, eds. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1990).

Early Christianity

Appendix A: Guide to Important Christian Documents and Writers for the Early Christian Church to the Reformation,” by Barry R. Bickmore in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

Appendix C: New Testament Evidences and Prophecies of Apostasy in the First-Century Church,” by Noel B. Reynolds in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

Baptism for the Dead in Early Christianity,” by David L. Paulsen and Brock M. Mason in Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 19 no. 2 (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2010).

The Christian History and Development of Easter,” by Keith J. Wilson in Celebrating Easter: The 2006 BYU Easter Conference, ed. Thomas A. Wayment and Keith J. Wilson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University).

The Church and the Roman Empire,” by Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute).

Clothed Upon: A Unique Aspect of Christian Antiquity,” by Blake T. Ostler in BYU Studies 22 no. 1 (1982).

The Corruption of Scripture in Early Christianity,” by John Gee in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).     

Divine Embodiment: The Earliest Christian Understanding of God,” by David L. Paulsen Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).        

Early Christian Millenarianist Interpretation of the Two Witnesses in John’s Apocalypse 11:3-13,” by Thomas W. Mackay in By Study and also by Faith Volume 1, eds. John M. Lundquist and Stephen D. Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1990).

The Early Christian Prayer Circle,” by Hugh Nibley in BYU Studies 19 no. 1 (1978).

Ex Nihilo: The Development of the Doctrines of the God and Creation in Early Christianity,” by Keith E. Norman in BYU Studies 17 no. 3 (1977).

The First Presidency of the Early Church: Their Lives and Epistles,” by Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute).

Gammadia on Early Jewish and Christian Garments,” by John W. Welch and Claire Foley in BYU Studies 36 no. 3 (1996–1997).

Introduction: What Went Wrong for the Early Christians?” by Noel B. Reynolds in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

Jerusalem: in Early Christianity,” by Hugh W. Nibley. Reprinted by permission from Mormonism and Early Christianity, vol. 4 in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987).

Jesus and the Ossuaries: First-Century Jewish Burial Practices and the Lost Tomb of Jesus,” by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Jeffrey R. Chadwick, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment in Behold the Lamb of God: An Easter Celebration, ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008).

Part II: Early Christian Belief in an Embodied God,” by David Paulsen in BYU Studies 35 no. 4 (1995–1996).

The Passing of the Primitive Church: Forty Variations on an Unpopular Theme,” by Hugh W. Nibley in When the Lights Went Out: Three Studies on the Ancient Apostasy by Hugh W. Nibley (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2001).

Philosophy and Early Christianity,” by Daniel W. Graham, and James L. Siebach in FARMS Review 11 no. 2 (1999).

Rediscovering Ancient Christianity,” by C. Wilfred Griggs in BYU Studies 38 no. 4 (1999).

Sacred Books: The Canon of the Hebrew Bible at the End of the First Century,” by Robert L. Maxwell in BYU Studies 36 no. 3 (1996–1997).

Sacred Vestments,” by Hugh W. Nibley in Temple and Cosmos, vol. 12 ed. Don Norton (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992).

The Saga of the Early Christian Church,” by Robert L. Millet in SS 6:1–11.

The ‘Same’ Organization That Existed in the Primitive Church,” by Grant Underwood in Go Ye into All the World: Messages of the New Testament Apostles, 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).

Scripture Insight: Fasting in Earliest Christianity,” by John W. Welch in Insights 21 no. 9 (2001).

Scripture Insight: ‘The Lord Appointed Other Seventy Also,’” by John A. Tvedtnes in Insights 1 no. 4 (1999).

The Setting and Sacrament of the Christian Community,” by Mark D. Ellison in Go Ye into All the World: Messages of the New Testament Apostles, 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).

Signs of the True Church,” Mark E. Petersen in Ensign 9 (May 1979).

Treasures in the Heavens: Some Early Christian Insights into the Organizing of Worlds,” by Hugh W. Nibley in Dialogue 8, no. 3–4 (1973).

Twilight in the Early Church,” by W. Jeffrey Marsh in Go Ye into All the World: Messages of the New Testament Apostles, 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002).

Whither the Early Church?” by S. Kent Brown in Ensign, October 1988, 6–10.

Other Texts

The Apocalypse of Peter: Introduction and Translation,” by S. Kent Brown and C. Wilfred Griggs in BYU Studies 15 no. 1 (1975).

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha,” by C. Wilfred Griggs in Encyclopedia of Mormonism.

The Apocryphal Judas Revisited,” by John W. Welch in BYU Studies 45 no. 2 (2006).

False Gospels: An Approach to Studying the New Testament Apocrypha,” by Thomas A. Wayment in How the New Testament Came to Be: The Thirty-fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

Imitation Gospels and Christ’s Book of Mormon Ministry,” by Richard Lloyd Anderson in Apocryphal Writings and the Latter-day Saints, ed. C. Wilfred Griggs (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1986).

Judas in the New Testament, the Restoration, and the Gospel of Judas,” by Frank F. Judd Jr. in BYU Studies 45 no. 2 (2006).

New Testament Word Studies,” by John W. Welch in Ensign 23 (Apr. 1993).

The ‘Unhistorical’ Gospel of Judas,” by Thomas A. Wayment in BYU Studies 45 no. 2 (2006). 

Word Studies from the New Testament,” by John W. Welch in Ensign 25 (Jan. 1995).

Restoration

A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Restoration,” by Robert L. Millet in Jesus Christ: Son of God, Savior, ed. Paul H. Peterson, Gary L. Hatch, and Laura D. Card (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002).

A New Pneumatology: Comparing Joseph Smith’s Doctrine of the Spirit with His Contemporaries and the Bible,” by Lynne Hilton Wilson in BYU Studies 51 no. 1 (2012).

Asking Restoration Questions in New Testament Scholarship,” by Kent P. Jackson in How the New Testament Came to Be: The Thirty-fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

The Doctrine of Divine Embodiment: Restoration, Judeo-Christian, and Philosophical Perspectives,” by David Paulsen in BYU Studies 35 no. 4 (1995–1996).

The Historical Jesus: A Latter-day Saint Perspective,” by Robert L. Millet in Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2001).

Images of Christ in Latter-day Saint Visual Culture, 1900–1999,” by Noel A. Carmack in BYU Studies 39, no. 3 (2000).

Latter-Day Clarity on Christ’s Life and Teachings,” by Ray L. Huntington and Camille Fronk in Ensign 29 (Jan. 1999).

“‘The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee,” by Larry E. Dahl in Ensign 27 (Apr. 1997).

The New Testament and the Latter-day Saints,” by John K. Carmack in Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

New Testament Lesson Topics: What the Restoration Prophets Have Said,” in BYU Studies. 

Parallel Prophets: Paul and Joseph Smith,” by Richard Lloyd Anderson in Ensign 15 (Apr. 1985).

The Premortal Godhood of Christ: A Restoration Perspective,” by Andrew C. Skinner in Jesus Christ:Son of God, Savior, ed. Paul H. Peterson, Gary L. Hatch, and Laura D. Card (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002).

The Redemption of the Dead and the Testimony of Jesus,” by D. Todd Christofferson in Ensign 30 (Nov. 2000).

The Restored Doctrine of the Atonement,” by Bruce C. Hafen in Ensign 23 (Dec. 1993).

The Savior and Joseph Smith—Alike Yet Unlike,” by Francis M. Gibbons in Ensign 21 (May 1991).

Thus Shall My Church Be Called,” by Russell M. Nelson in Ensign 20 (May 1990).

What Constitutes the True Church?” by Delbert L. Stapley in Ensign 7 (May 1977).

What Think Ye of Christ?” by Dallin H. Oaks in Ensign 18 (Nov. 1988).

Restoration Texts

A Text-Critical Comparison of the King James New Testament with Certain Modern Translations,” by Lincoln Blummell in Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2011).

The Book of Mormon and the Apocalypse of Paul,” by Steven W. Booras in The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books: Out of Darkness into Light (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2000).

The Book of Mormon as an Interpretive Guide to the New Testament,” by Dennis L. Largey in Sperry Symposium Classics: The New Testament, ed. Frank F. Judd Jr. and Gaye Strathearn (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

The Jewish Lectionary and Book of Mormon Prophecy,” by John L. Fowles in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 3 (Fall 1994).

Joseph Smith—Matthew: Profiting from Prophecy,” George A. Horton in The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God, ed. by H. Donl Peterson and Charles D. Tate Jr. (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1989).

Joseph Smith’s Interpretation of the New Testament Parables of the Kingdom,” by Monty S. Nyman in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, ed. Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin (Brigham Young University, 2011).

Joseph Smith and the Gospel of Matthew,” by Robert L. Millet in BYU Studies 25 no. 3 (1985).

Joseph Smith and the New Testament,” by Robert J. Matthews in How the New Testament Came to Be: The Thirty-fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006).

The Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible: A Panel,” by S. Kent Brown, Robert J. Matthews, and Victor L. Ludlow In Scriptures for the Modern World, edited by Paul R. Cheesman and C. Wilfred Griggs (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center, 1984), 75–99, especially 80–88, 92–94.

The Joseph Smith Translation: ‘Plain and Precious Things’ Restored,” by David Rolph Seely in Ensign 27 (Aug. 1997).

The JST and the Synoptic Gospels: Literary Style,” by Robert L. Millet in The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things, ed. by Monte S. Nyman and Robert L. Millet (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1985).

Looking beyond the Mark: Insights from the JST into First-Century Judaism,” by Robert L. Millet in The Joseph Smith Translation: The Restoration of Plain and Precious Things, ed. by Monte S. Nyman and Robert L. Millet (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1985).

Modern Revelation: A Guide to Research about the Apostasy,” by John W. Welch in Early Christians in Disarray: Contemporary LDS Perspectives on the Christian Apostasy, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2005).

New Light on Paul’s Teachings,” by Richard D. Draper in Ensign 29 (Sept. 1999).

The Olive Tree and the Work of God: Jacob 5 and Romans 11,” by James E. Faulconer. Reprinted by permission from The Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1994).

Our New Light on Jesus’ Mortal Life and Teachings,” by Jay M. Todd in Ensign 25 (Jan. 1995).

The Problem of the Sermon on the Mount and 3 Nephi,” by A. Don Sorensen in FARMS Review 16 no. 2. A review of A Further Inquiry into the Historicity of the Book of Mormon by William D. Russell. Provo, Utah: Maxwell Institute, 2004.

The Process of Apostasy in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon,” by Daniel Belnap in Shedding Light on the New Testament: Acts–Revelation, ed. Ray L. Huntington, Frank F. Judd Jr., and David M. Whitchurch. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.

Prophecies and Promises of Joseph Smith—Matthew,” by D. Kelly Ogden in Religious Educator 3, no. 1 (2002).

Prophetic Enlightenment on the Sermon on the Mount,” by Jeffery W. Marsh in Ensign 29 (Jan. 1999).

Restored Light on the Savior’s Last Week in Mortality,” by Andrew C. Skinner in Ensign 29 (June 1999).

The Rich Man, Lazarus and Doctrine and Covenants 104:18,” by Steven C. Harper in BYU Studies 47 no. 4 (2008).

The Savior’s Rejection: Insights from the Joseph Smith Translation,” by Thomas E. Sherry in Jesus Christ: Son of God, Savior, ed. Paul H. Peterson, Gary L. Hatch, and Laura D. Card (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002).

The Sermon on the Mount and Third Nephi,” by Krister Stendahl in Reflections on Mormonism: Judaeo-Christian Parallels, ed. by Truman G. Madsen (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1978).

The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture. Ed. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.

The Sermon on the Mount in the Joseph Smith Translation,” by David A. LeFevre in The Sermon on the Mount in Latter-day Scripture. Ed. Gaye Strathearn, Thomas A. Wayment, and Daniel L. Belnap. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010.

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