The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new biography of church founder Joseph Smith — an official look at the 19th-century charismatic leader who launched a global movement.
. Teams of church scholars, including many who worked on the papers project, will help with the research.
The biography itself “will be written as a narrative for a general audience,” the release said, and the church expects it “to garner a wide readership.” In his remarks, Oaks, who was an “apostolic adviser” in church history for 20 years, described the origins of the Joseph Smith Paper project. “It was a generous couple willing to heed spiritual promptings that provided the key to catapulting the project forward on a grand scale,” the Latter-day Saint leader said. “They were Larry H. and Gail Miller, prominent Utah philanthropists who owned an automobile sales empire and the Utah Jazz basketball team, among other enterprises.”
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