Steven L. Shields

STEVEN L. SHIELDS {[email protected]} was president of John Whitmer Historical Association, 2011–2012. He is best known as the author of Divergent Paths of the Restoration; a fifth edition is forthcoming from Greg Kofford Books. He has lived or worked in several countries in Asia, including Korea where he was a missionary, pastor, and founding president of the Community of Christ East Asia Mission Center. Retired from full-time church service, he is vice president of the Royal Asiatic Society-Korea Branch and a columnist for the Korea Times.

Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon: Co-Founders of a Movement

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 3

Dialogue 52.3 (Fall 2019): 1–18
Shields argues that if you deny or dismiss Sidney Ridgon’s contributions to the early church, then the scripture canon during this time would need to be reinterpreted.