by Christopher C. Smith Christopher C. Smith is a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University and is completing a dissertation on early Mormon views of Native Americans. Stage 1, 1860–1861: Théodule Devéria The first hints of difficulties with the Book of Abraham appeared in the late 1850s when French scholar Théodule Devéria wrote …
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Sacred Sci-Fi: Orson Scott Card as Mormon Mythmaker
By Christopher C. Smith Almost every culture has traditional mythologies—usually stories set in a primordial time of gods and heroes. Although in popular discourse the term “myth” typically refers only to fiction, literary critics and theologians use it to refer to any “existential” story—even a historical one. Myths explain how the world came to be, …