Joseph Smith and the Prophetic Tradition

A Comparative Inquiry

Claremont Graduate University

20-21 October 2005

Thursday, October 20	Seely G. Mudd Theatre Claremont School of Theology 1325 N. College Ave, Claremont
Opening Address:	7:30 pm
“The Making of a Prophet”	Richard Bushman, Columbia University
Friday, October 21*	Edwards Humanities Building Scripps College 981 N. Amherst Ave, Claremont
Morning Session  Karen Jo Torjesen, Moderator	9:00 am - noon
“The Making of a Prophet:	Revelation and Scripture”
Welcome and Introduction	9:00 am
Karen Jo Torjesen Claremont Graduate University
Presenters:	9:15am
Richard Bushman Columbia University	(Joseph Smith) 10 min
Carl Ernst University of North Carolina	(Mohammed) 30 min
Rennie Schoepflin La Sierra University	(Ellen G. White) 30 min
Break	10:35 am
Discussion	11:00 am
Slide Presentation: “Seeing Joseph Smith:	12-12:30 pm Visual Images of the Prophet”
Robert Rees Institute of HeartMath
Lunch	12:30-2:00 pm
Afternoon Session  Ann Taves, Moderator	2:00 – 5:30 pm
“Prophecy, Canonization and	Institutional Authority”
Presenters:	2:00 pm
Jan Shipps Indiana University-Purdue University	(Mormonism)
Grant Wacker Duke University Divinity School	(Evangelicalism)
David Carpenter St. Joseph’s University	(Catholicism)
Break	3:45 pm
Discussion	4:00 pm
Conclusion:	5:15 pm
“The Prophetic Voice”	Robert Millet Brigham Young University

* Please park on Foothill Blvd, between Dartmouth and Mills, and follow signs to the conference

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