BYU STUDIES Volume 45 2006 Issues 1-4

Volume 45, number 2, features two articles about Joseph Smith. Terryl Givens’s BYU devotional address given in November 2005, describes how Joseph’s radical (for his time) conception of human nature and human relationships led men to greatness. David Paulsen examines seven points of Joseph’s theology, summarizing Joseph’s teachings, the traditional Christian view, and new Christian ideas.

In 1897, President Wilford Woodruff made an audio recording mentioning Joseph Smith giving a charge to t...