MATT BOWMAN teaches history of American religion at Hampden Sydney College. He has a PhD in American history from Georgetown University, and wrote a dissertation on American evangelicalism. He is associate editor of Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought. Matt Bowman
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Raising The Dead: Mormons, Evangelicals, And Miracles In America
The power to raise the dead was among the gifts Christ gave his twelve apostles, as recorded in Matthew; later Paul boldly asserted it before Herod Agrippa. The gift appears again in the Book of Mormon. It should be no surprise that when Joseph Smith proclaimed the estoration of the primitive church, expectations for the …