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Christopher James Blythe

Christopher James Blythe is a research associate at the Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University, as well as the coeditor of the Journal of Mormon History and copresident of the Folklore Society of Utah. In 2015, he received his Ph.D. in American Religious History from Florida State University. He is currently co-authoring a book on contemporary Latter-day Saints for Columbia University Press with Philip Barlow and Jan Shipps. His book, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse is due out this summer from Oxford University Press.

(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGMay 4, 2020

Bill Gates’ Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame ‘Mark of the Beast’ Worries in Some Christian Circles

By Christopher James Blythe

If the worries of most quarantined Christians in the United States center on health and…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFGMarch 24, 2020

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet

By Christopher James Blythe

Some Mormons See a Message in the Angel Moroni’s Fallen Trumpet On March 18, 2020,…

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(A)theologies, ArchiveMarch 12, 2020

How ‘The Seven Missions’ of the ‘Doomsday Couple’ Connect Them to the Larger LDS Prophecy Subculture

By Christopher James Blythe

Apocalypticism was once part of the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…

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