Grant Underwood

Grant Revon Underwood is a historian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a professor at Brigham Young University. He is also the author of The Millennial World of Early Mormonism and the editor of Voyages of Faith: Explorations in Mormon Pacific History

Seminal Versus Sesquicentennial Saints: A Look At Mormon Millennialism

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 1

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Book of Mormon Usage in Early LDS Theology

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 3

Dialogue 17.3 (Fall 1984): 37–75
As one step in that direction, this article explores Book of Mormon usage in the pre-Utah period (1830—46), and seeks answers to the following questions: Which passages from the Book of Mormon were cited and with what frequency? How were they understood?

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Baptism for the Dead: Comparing RLDS and LDS Perspectives

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2

Dialogue 23.2 (Summer 1990): 99–105
Underwood discusses why two religions who share the same exact upbringing have different opinions about the temple rituals.

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A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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