LDS Perspectives: The Historical Jesus

LDSPerspectives.com is a brand new website where you can find podcasts answering your most challenging questions. Covering LDS history, doctrine, and culture, presenters include Jeff Chadwick, David Marsh, Brad Wilcox, Brant Gardner, LaJean Carruth, Lisa Olsen Tait, Jennifer Mackley, and others.

The LDS Perspectives team consists of the following well-informed and talented Mormons:

Nick Galieti—Everyday Lives—author, and director and producer of two documentaries on the life of Joseph Smith Jr., “Picturing Joseph,” and “Murder of the Mormon Prophet“
Russell Stevenson—The Mormon History Guy—author, and recipient of the Martin Luther King scholarship for social activism and community service
Laura Harris Hales—Mormon Miscellany—editor of A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine and Church History, and co-author with Brian Hales of the informative website Joseph Smith’s Polygamy
Emil Harker—Love and Relationships—a gifted therapist, dynamic presenter, and clinical innovator, author of the new book You Can Turn Conflict Into Closeness – 7 Communication Skills of Successful Marriages
Blake Dalton—A Closer Look—an educator and counselor who works with youth
Chad Cannon—Music—composer and orchestrator, with a degree from Julliard, whose music can be heard in films such as Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”

First Episode: The Historical Jesus

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Friends of other faiths have accused Mormons of not being Christians because we “believe in a different Jesus.” Who was the historical Jesus; why do Mormons see Him a bit differently than do other Christians?

Thomas A. Wayment discusses the subject and answers these questions in LDS Perspectives’ first podcast. Dr. Wayment is a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. He is also involved in studying the manuscript tradition of the New Testament and what light it sheds on modern revelations, such as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

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