Open Canon

Christine Blythe is the William A. Wilson Folklore Archives Specialist at Brigham Young University and a scholar of vernacular religion and belief. From 2017 to 2021 she was editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies and is currently co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah. Christopher James Blythe is assistant professor in English at Brigham Young University. He is currently coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History and co-president of the Folklore Society of Utah. Blythe is the author of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse. Jay A. Burton is an archivist and Church history specialist in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is a founding editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies.

Acknowledgments Churches and Movements Select Chronology Sources and Abbreviations Foreword Philip L. Barlow Part I: Introductory Essays 1. Opening the Canon: A New Scriptural Tradition Christopher James Blythe 2. Anchored in Revelation: Scripture and Schism in the Restoration Laurie F. Maffly- Kipp 3. Revelation, Scripture, and Authority in the Latter Day Saint Diaspora, 1840-1870 Richard L. Saunders Part II: Reception of Joseph Smith's Revelations 4. Books of Mormon: Latter- day Saints, Latter Day Saints, and the Book of Mormon Joseph M. Spencer 5. The Church of Christ (Temple Lot): A Solae Scripturae Mormonism Chrystal Vanel 6. Joseph Smith's Letter from Liberty Jail: A Study in Canonization Kathleen Flake 7. Lectures on Faith in the Latter Day Saint Tradition Richard S. Van Wagoner, Steven C. Walker, Allen D. Roberts, and Christine Elyse Blythe Part III: Case Studies in New Scripture: Nineteenth Century 8. Lucy Mack Smith and Her Sacred Text Janiece Johnson 9. Strangite Scripture Christine Elyse Blythe and Christopher James Blythe 10. The Book of Enoch "Revised, Corrected, and the Missing Parts Restored" Christopher James Blythe 11. William Bickerton's Cooperative Views on Scripture and Revelation Daniel P. Stone 12. Scriptures for the Children of Zion: The Revelations of Sidney and Phebe Rigdon Jay Burton Part IV: Case Studies in New Scripture: Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries 13. Harry Edgar Baker and The Word of the Lord Thomas G. Evans and Christopher James Blythe 14. The Levitical Writings of the House of Aaron Casey Paul Griffiths 15. The Hidden Records of Central Utah and the Struggle for Religious Authority Christopher C. Smith 16. Matthew Philip Gill, Joseph Smith, and the Dynamics of Mormon Schism Matthew Bowman Contributors Index

"A collection that treats the still-proliferating scriptures of the still-diverging branches of the Latter Day Saint movement both as a common phenomenon and as individual phenomena meriting equal intellectual seriousness and scholarly rigor is long overdue. This volume will be a landmark in Latter Day Saint studies."-Jared Hickman, associate professor of English, Johns Hopkins University, and coeditor of Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon