Christopher Blythe – A Folklorist’s Approach to Book of Mormon Geography
Christopher James Blythe is a research associate at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Mormon History, the co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah, and the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse. Blythe holds a PhD in American Religious History from Florida State University. He is currently working on a book about how and why Latter-day Saints throughout Church history have located the events of the Book of Mormon. He is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He lives in Springville, Utah, with his wife and three boys.
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Author, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Virtual Expo September 2020
I found your presentation refreshing. I appreciated your genuine respect for the “passion” others have with regard to their “beliefs” and ideas concerning Book of Mormon geography. I wish others in academia were as openminded–or at the very least respectful–to the beliefs of others. It is their love of the Book of Mormon that fuels that passion. All sides need to recognize this and appreciate it for what it is and what it represents. Passion is fine, but it can reach a tipping point and therein lies the danger.