Dallin Harris Oaks is an American religious leader and former jurist and academic who since 2018 has been the first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called as a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1984. Currently,he is the second most senior apostle by years of service and is the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
The Joseph Smith Translation (JST),also called the Inspired Version of the Holy Scriptures (IV),is a revision of the Bible by Joseph Smith,the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement,who said that the JST/IV was intended to restore what he described as "many important points touching the salvation of men,[that] had been taken from the Bible,or lost before it was compiled". Smith was killed before he deemed it complete,though most of his work on it was performed about a decade beforehand. The work is the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) with some significant additions and revisions. It is considered a sacred text and is part of the canon of Community of Christ (CoC),formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,and other Latter Day Saint churches. Selections from the Joseph Smith Translation are also included in the footnotes and the appendix of the LDS-published King James Version of the Bible,but the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has only officially canonized certain excerpts that appear in its Pearl of Great Price. These excerpts are the Book of Moses and Smith's revision of part of the Gospel of Matthew.
Albert Ernest Bowen was an American lawyer and Mormon religious leader who served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Richard Roswell Lyman was an American engineer and religious leader who was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1918 to 1943.
William Earl McLellin was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. One of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles,McLellin later broke with church founder Joseph Smith.
Bruce Clark Hafen is an American attorney,academic and religious leader. He has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1996.
John Woodland "Jack" Welch is a scholar of law and religion. Welch is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently teaches at the J. Reuben Clark Law School (JRCLS) at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo,Utah,where he is the Robert K. Thomas University Professor of Law. He is notable for his contributions to LDS (Mormon) scholarship,including his discovery of the ancient literary form chiasmus in the Book of Mormon.
Matthew B. Brown was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) author and historian whose emphasis was on the history and doctrine of Joseph Smith and his successors through Brigham Young.
The Joseph Smith Papers is a project researching,collecting,and publishing all manuscripts and documents created by,or under the direction of,Joseph Smith (1805-1844),the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The documents,which include transcriptions and annotations,have appeared both online and in printed form. The Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsors the project;the department's imprint,the Church Historian's Press,publishes the website and the printed volumes.
Ronald Kent Esplin is the managing editor of The Joseph Smith Papers project and the former director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University (BYU).
John Laurence Gee is an American Latter-day Saint scholar,apologist and an Egyptologist. He currently teaches at Brigham Young University (BYU) and serves in the Department of Near Eastern Languages. He is known for his writings in support of the Book of Abraham.
Dean Cornell Jessee is a historian of the early Latter Day Saint movement and leading expert on the writings of Joseph Smith Jr.
Noel Beldon Reynolds is an American political scientist and an emeritus professor of political science at Brigham Young University (BYU),where he has also served as an associate academic vice president and as director for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). He was a member of the BYU faculty from 1971 to 2011. He has also written widely on the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,of which he is a member.
James Brown Allen is an American historian of Mormonism and was an official Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 to 1979. While working as Assistant Church Historian,he co-authored The Story of the Latter-day Saints with Glen Leonard. After Ezra Taft Benson dismissed the book as secular new history,other events led to the dissolution of the LDS Church History department in 1982. Allen resigned as Assistant Church Historian in 1979,returning to work at Brigham Young University (BYU) full-time.
Richard Eyring "Rick" Turley Jr. is an American historian and genealogist. He previously served as both an Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as managing director of the church's public affairs department.
Gordon Axel Madsen is a former state legislator and assistant attorney general in Utah. He is currently working as a co-editor of the business and legal papers in the Joseph Smith Papers Project. Madsen is married to Carol Cornwall Madsen.
Steven Craig Harper is a professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He was a historian for the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From 2019,he is the Editor-in-Chief of BYU Studies Quarterly.
Ronald Warren Walker was an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and president of the Mormon History Association. His work,acclaimed by the Mormon History Association,dealt with the Godbeites,the Utah War,and the Mountain Meadows Massacre,among other topics.
Mormon studies is the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs,practices,history and culture of individuals and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement,a religious movement associated with the Book of Mormon,though not all churches and members of the Latter Day Saint movement identify with the terms Mormon or Mormonism. Denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,by far the largest,as well as the Community of Christ (CoC) and other smaller groups,include some categorized under the umbrella term Mormon fundamentalism.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and a topical guide to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
